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Pte. James Henry Cunningham
British Army Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Salford, Lancashire
James Henry Cunningham enlisted on the 26th of August 1914. He transferred to the Army Reserves 3/3/1919 His record shows that he was awarded Victory and British Medal and also the 15 Star. Theatre of war he first served in was the Balkans.
James Cunningham was an excellent swimmer and a family rumour is he swam in the army and had it not have been for the war would have been an Olympic swimmer in the cancelled Berlin Games. He was a member of the Royal Antideluvian Order of Buffalows. Phlharmonic Lodge.

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