Bugler Dunne Dies In Sydney

MR. JACK DUNNE, better known as Bugler Dunne, died in Sydney in February, He won fame as a bugler at the Battle of Colenso, when as a teen age youngster he sounded the advance instead of retreat, with the re sult that the battle was a victory for the British troops. After the Battle of Colenso he was presented with a silver bugle by Queen Victoria.

Bugler Dunne lived for a number of years in Fiji. In Levuka he was for a time licensee of the Polynesian Hotel, and in Suva he named his home in Gorrie Street “Colenso” after the Boer War battle.

He served on a number of inter-island ships, then became a steward on a vessel trading between Fiji and Australia. Later he served in the same capacity on Burns Philp ships on the Sydney-New Guinea run.