 For his services, Dunn was made a life member of the Eastern Suburbs, the NSWRL and Australian Rugby League (ARL) and was a recipient of an Order of Australia O.A.M for his services to Rugby League.He was also coach of the New South Wales team in the 1960s.He was granted a life membership of Eastern Suburbs Rugby League, because as a director of the Eastern Suburbs Leagues Club, he was one of the original directors who negotiated the site of the present Rugby League club which had originally started when Dunn was the social secretary of Easts in the 1950s in two little rooms at the northern end of the promenade at Bondi Beach.