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Robert Lambart Dunville (1893-1931)

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photograph: Robert Lambart Dunville (1893-1931)  in Guards' uniform

Robert Lambart Dunville (1893-1931) in Guards' uniform
photograph: Robert Lambart Dunville (1893-1931) in hunting tunic

in hunting tunic
photograph: Robert Lambart Dunville (1893-1931) with Patou

with Patou
photograph: Bruno the bear

Bruno the bear
photograph: Robert Lambart Dunville (1893-1931) with a young zebra

with a young zebra
photograph: Coupe Gordon Bennett Medal

AERO CLUB DE BELGIQUE


photograph: Coupe Gordon Bennett Medal

DE COUPE GORDON BENNETT
- 1925 -
À R.L. DUNVILLE

This medal was presented to Robert Dunville for taking part in the Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett ballooning competition of 1925. John Dunville and Squadron Leader Baldwin were listed as the pilot and co-pilot of Banshee III. Presumably Robert Dunville also flew in Banshee III.

photograph: Gordon Bennett Cup Medal

GORDON BENNETT CUP 1926
photograph: Gordon Bennett Cup Medal

PRESENTED TO MR. R.L. DUNVILLE PILOT
of the BALLOON “BANSHEE”
by the BRITISH COLONY AT ANTWERP ON
the occasion of the GORDON BENNETT CUP
May 30th 1926

This medal was presented to Robert Dunville for taking part in the Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett ballooning competition of 1926. Squadron Leader Baldwin and R.L. Dunville were listed as the pilot and co-pilot of Banshee III.

The photographs of Robert Lambart Dunville in Guards' uniform and in hunting tunic were provided by Christopher Dunville, who is a great-grandson of Robert Lambart Dunville, and the 1925 medal was loaned by him.

The photographs of Robert Lambart Dunville with Patou and with the young zebra, and the photograph of Bruno the bear, were provided by Gordon Thompson (Senior) and Gordon Thompson (Junior), who are a son and a grandson of Tommy Thompson, the Gamekeeper of Redburn House.

See also:

The Dunvilles of Northern Ireland and Dunville's Whisky

Family Tree

Obituary of Robert Lambart Dumville (1893-1931)

Photographs of John Dunville Dunville, CBE, DL (1866-1929), father of Robert Lambart Dunville

Photograph of Violet Anne Blanche Dunville née Lambart (1861-1940), mother of Robert Lambart Dunville

Photographs of John Spencer Dunville, VC (1896-1917), younger brother of Robert Lambart Dunville

Photographs of Redburn House, Holywood, County Down

More Photographs from Redburn House

Pictures of Dunville & Co. Ltd. Buildings




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