Enrolled in the Royal Naval Reserve as a Deck Hand in October 1936 and was posted to the Harwich base Badger on the outbreak of hostilities. In 1942 he was sent to the USA to promote war bond sales. Dunn rejoined the Royal Naval Patrol Service in Europa on his return to the U.K., served aboard the Corsair out of Benbow base from May to October 1944, and thereafter back in Europa until the end of the War, in which latter period he was advanced to Petty Officer.
Demobilised at the end of the 1945, LSGC 1946 and, having been discharged from the R.N.R. in April 1950, re-enrolled in March 1956 and served for several years as a member of the River Wear Police.
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