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Pte. Archibald John Cuff
British Army 1st Battalion Royal ÃÆ??Ã?Ã? Hampshire ÃÆ??Ã?Ã? Regt
from:Church Knowle, Dorset
(d.14th May 1915)
Archibald John Cuff died in the Great War. Jack, as he was known, was born in Bournemouth in March 1887 to Richard John Cuff and Emma Elizabeth (nee Venn). His father was a railway porter with the London and South Railway. In the 1901 census Jack was a newspaper boy, living with his parents.He married Agnes Kate Slade from Church Knowle, Dorset in 1910.
As Jack's records were destroyed it is hard to follow his military career. In 1911 he was at the Barbados Barracks in Aldershot, Dorset in the 1st Battalion, Royal Hampshire Regiment. Jack was a stretcher bearer and a musician. He was killed in action in France in May 1915. His name is on the Menin Gate and at Waterloo Station Memorial, London.He left behind 2 young children, Jack and Winnie. Kate, his wife, never remarried and when she died she had all his letters from the war in a handbag that never left her side. She was 26 years old when her husband died and she lived to be 89.
