Monday 23rd August: We have heard that another of our East Anglian Royal Engineers was killed yesterday. The 2nd/1st Field Company are serving with 54th (East Anglian) Division in Gallipoli. A popular young man was Saddler Albert Walter Bunker, affectionately known as “Nibbo”, son of Mr A Bunker, the well-known harness-maker of 4 Bridge Street, Luton. He was approaching his 21st year and was saddler to his company in the East Anglian Royal Engineers, which he joined last January. A bright, vivacious young man, a regular member of Christ Church congregation, he was formerly identified with the Boy Scouts. The last message from him was a postcard written at Alexandria”.
His commanding officer tells us “He was struck in the head with a fragment of shrapnel when our camp was being shelled yesterday and died within an hour without regaining consciousness so that I feel sure he suffered no pain. The officers and men of my Company feel that they have now lost a willing and brave comrade”(1)
Luton News 2 September 1915
(1) Nibbo Bunker is buried at Hill 10 Cemetery, Gallipoli
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