HELP. Can anybody identify Richard Bunker , soldier , date of birth rather elastic probably around 1800. He married , wife unknown and had a son Julius born about 1837 in Castlebar in Ireland. who also became a soldier. Bunkers in the north of England were practically unknown at this time so the odds are stacked heavily that he was born in the south of England unless, of course, his father too was a soldier in which case he could have been born almost anywhere. Brian Bunker.