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Pte. Joseph Hilton Cumberland
Australian Imperial Force 2nd Btn.
from:Scone, New South Wales.
(d.5th May 1915)
Joseph Cumberland died of wounds received at Gallipoli on the 5th May 1915, aged 21 and is buried in the Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial, Alexandria, Egypt. He was the brother of Oliver who is buried at Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac and son of the late George A. and Sarah Cumberland. Joseph was born at Scone, New South Wales.
Pte. Cormac Cumeskey
British Army 24th (1st Tyneside Irish) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle upon Tyne
(d.29th Aug 1917)
Cormac Cumeskey was laid to rest at the Roisel Communal Cemetery extension in the Somme, France
Pte. James Cumiskey
British Army 7th Defence Force Durham Light Infantry
from:Sunderland
James Cumiskey served with the 7th Defence Force Durham Light Infantry. He was born in South Shields, son of the late Thomas and Mary Cumiskey of Jarrow. He was the husband of the late Mary Cumiskey (nee Thompson) of Sunderland. He was aged 47 when died on 19th July 1921.
James is buried in Sunderland (Ryhope Road) Cemetery and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
L/Cpl John Douglas Skeoch Cumming
British Army 2/14th (2nd London Scottish) Battalion London Regiment
from:London
John Douglas Skeoch Cumming served in the Territorial Army with the 2nd Battalion London Scottish. A notation on the back of a photo postcard says "Dumped on the Right bank of the Jordan April 30/18 about sunset", as well as a list of places visited, transited or saw action: France, Salonika, Palestine. Port Said, Ismailia, Marsailles, Cairo, Alexandria. There is one other place Mount Olympus (this is a guess)
The photograph of C Coy, 10 Platoon, 2/14 London Regiment, 2nd Battalion London Scottish was taken in June 1916, at Sandhill Camp, Wiltshire.
Pte. Matthew Maughan Cumming
British Army 18th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:Witton Gilbert, Durham
(d.28th Jul 1916)
Matthew Cumming, my great grand uncle, enlisted on the 24th of September 1914 at the age of 23 years 7 months and joined up with the 18th Battalion for training on the 10th of October 1914 at Cocken Hall, Durham. Upon completion of field training the battalion were dispatched for front line action in Egypt on the 6th of December 1915. On the 5th of March 1916 they left for France.
On the 28th of July 1916 Matthew’s life was cut short at the Battle of the Somme. Whilst under heavy bombardment a shell hit the trench they were in and he was recorded as lost in action. He was aged 26.
Sometime after his father William received a letter from Matthew’s commanding officer Second Lieutenant James B Bradford, which was written from his hospital bed: "I am writing to tell you of how awfully sorry to hear of your son’s death. I am sure it will be a great blow to you. I heard about it by letter some days ago sent to me by one of my men. I had sent your son some cigarettes and they received them the day he was killed. Your son was my batman for four months at the front and I can truthfully say he was the best one I had ever had. Further he was a brave boy and I liked him very much indeed, and was very cut up when I had the news sent to me of his death. With my deepest sympathy, in your sad loss. Yours truly, Second Lieutenant James B Bradford"
Pte. Robert Cumming
British Army 1st/6th Btn. Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
from:Stirlingshire, Scotland
(d.29th Oct 1915)
L/Cpl. William Godfrey Cummingham
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
served with 18th & 11th DLI
Able Seaman. Ernest Charles Cummings
Royal Navy HMS Patrol
from:Brixton, London
Ernest Cummings aged 20, from Brixton in London, lost his life when he was lost overboard from HMS Patrol when she was hit by a shell as she left Victoria Dock Hartlepool to engage the enemy during the Bombardment of the Hartlepools. He is buried in Holy Trinity Church Yard, Seaton Carew.
Pte. Fred Cummings
British Army 6th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment
(d.4th Jul 1916)
Fred Cummings died 4th July 1916 and is buried in the Amara War Cemetery in Iraq.
Pte. J. W. Cummings
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Littletown
(d.1st July 1916)
J Cummings took part in trench raids on the nights of the 5th-6th and 25th-26th of June 1916. He is buried at Ovilliers
Gnr. John Cummings
British Army 106th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Houghton-le-Spring
(d.26th July 1917)
Pte. Matthew Maughan Cummings
British Army 18th (Durham Pals) Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:Sacriston, Durham
(d.28th July 1916)
My great grand uncle Matthew Cummings enlisted on the 24th September 1914 at the age of 24 years 7 months and joined up with the 18th Battalion for training on the 10th October 1914 at Cocken Hall, Durham. Upon completion of field training the battalion were dispatched for front line action in Egypt on the 6th December 1915 until the 4th March 1916. On the 5th March 1916 they left for France and on the 28th July 1916 Matthew’s live was cut short at the Battle of the Somme whilst under heavy bombardment a shell hit the trench they were in. He was aged 26.
Sometime after his father, William, received a letter from Matthew’s commanding officer, which was written from his hospital bed: "I am writing to tell you of how awfully sorry to hear of your son’s death. I am sure it will be a great blow to you. I heard about it by letter some days ago sent to me by one of my men. I had sent your son some cigarettes and they received them the day he was killed. Your son was my batman for four months at the front and I can truthfully say he was the best one I had ever had. Further he was a brave boy and |I liked him very much indeed, and was very cut up when I had the news sent to me of his death. With deepest sympathy, in your sad loss. Yours truly, Second Lieutenant James B Bradford"
Pte. Matthew Cummings
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
(d.28th Jul 1916)
Matthew Cummings was the 28 year old son of William Cummings, he is remembered on the Loos Memorial.
Gnr. Samuel Cummings
British Army 3rd Brigade, 62nd Battery Royal Field Artillery
from:Fulham
Pte. Thomas Cummings
British Army 1st Btn. Irish Guards
from:Belfast
(d.28th Jan 1915)
Thomas Cummings was executed for desertion 28/01/1915 his name is on the Le Touret Memorial in Le Touret Military Cemetery. Richebourg-L'Avoue, France. He was the son of William Cummings, of Tully Muckamore, Belfast.
Pte. Hedley John " " Cummins
British Army 16th (Sussex Yeomanry) Btn Royal Sussex Regiment
from:Reigate, Surrey.
(d.10th Oct 1918)
Hedley Cummins lost his life one month before the end of hostilities. I would like to discover where he lost his life.
Pte J Cummins
British Army 5th Battalion The Connaught Rangers
from:Co. Galway
(d.10th November 1918)
L/Cpl. James Cummins
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:Clonmel, Tipperary
My grandfather James Cummins was a veteran of the Boer War, He signed on the Special Reserve of the Royal Irish Regiment in 1912. In 1914 he was with the BEF and badly wounded & taken prisoner near La Bassee and was a POW in Limburg, due to a foul up he was listed as missing presumed dead and remained so for three years. My grandmother received a letter from him and brought it to the Royal Irish Regiment depot in Clonmel. She was told it was a ruse by some soldier who had gotten his army number and was looking for socks etc. It was however his writing and she convinced them to check again.
James Cummins was repatriated through the Red Cross in 1918 and came home to find out that his brother had been killed at Cambrai and of his three brothers in law one had been killed at Suvla Bay, One had been badly injured at the same place and one had come home unscathed. James lived till 1954. We still have the POW release letter also his enlistment record to the Royal Irish Regmt. Two of his sons served with the armed forces of Britain during WW2.
John Cummins
from:Shoreditch, London
I can not find an record of my grandad, Jack Cummins. All I know is he drove the supplies to the front, I don't even know what that part of the army he would have been in. I can't find a J. Cummins anywhere, even though I know he was born in 1894 in Shoreditch, and he went to France and he did come home.
His elder brother George had emigrated to Canada and joined up on November 5th, 1915. George died at Vimy, on October 2nd, 1916. I found all this out from Canadian records recently; I even have a photocopy of his attestation papers. This document is very thorough; I even learned my great-grandfather's name, and address in London from it. If this would interest you I would be glad to send a copy. If anyone can help me, but I would be terribly grateful.
Editors note: There are at least 20 men named J. Cummins, listed in the medal cards at the National Archives, these can be viewed on their website or on Ancestery.co.uk. It may be that he joined his brother in the Canadian Army, many British men served in the Canadian Forces.
Pte John Cummins
Royal Army Medical Corps. 73rd Field Ambulance
from:62 Shakespeare Ave., Southampton
(d.9th Oct 1918)
On 6th October 1918 the 73rd Field Ambulance unit was at Havrincourt in bivouacs, South of Flesquires. Pte Jack Cummins a stretcher bearer was tasked with going out Sweeping for wounded. On 8th October at Noyelles, (South of Font. N. Dame) HQ-L 11c central was opposite church-industrial estate, in heavy shelling 5 men were wounded. 9th October infantry attacked at 0530.
John Cummins Pte died aged 25 on 9th October of wounds. He lies in Anneux British Cemetery. He was my Uncle Jack, a country boy from Shedfield in Hampshire who died of wounds sustained on the battlefield whilst saving others.
Gnr. John Cummins
British Army 10th Coy. Royal Garrison Artillery
(d.20th June 1915)
John Cummins was 37 when he died and is buried south-east of the church in the Blarney Church of Ireland Churchyard in Co. Cork, Ireland.
A/Bmdr. John Cummins
British Army 137th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:25 Dunlocha Cottages, Blackrock, Cork, Ireland
(d.1st May 1917)
Pte. James Cummiskey
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
from:Glasgow
(d.8th Nov 1917)
This was the war diary of my great grandfather James Cummiskey who was born on 17th of January 1877. He was married to my great grandmother Agnes and had 6 children, 2 of whom were stepchildren. His daughter, also called Agnes, was my grandmother, who was born in 1908.
On the 4th of August 1914 the 1/4th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers were based at Kilmarnock with the South Scottish Bde. Lowland Div. They moved in Aug. 1914 to Stirling. On the 11th of May 1915 the formation became 155th Bde. 52nd Div. They proceeded in May 1915 to the Mediterranean, sailing from Liverpool on the 21st of May and arriving in Mudros on 29th of May. On the 7th of June 1915 They landed at Gallipoli. In January 1916 they withdrew to Egypt and in April 1918 were sent to France, arriving at Marseilles on 17th of April. On the 11th of Novemember 1918, 155th Bde. 52nd Div. were at Jurbise, north of Mons.
Here is his War diary:
Place: Marine View, 18th October 1917 1200: Lieutenant Col. W Gibson took over command of Battalion from Major J W G Willison. 1500: Captain Roberts took over adjutancy of Battalion from Captain A Inglis. Battalion supplied digging parties during the day. Linking, scouting and intelligence organisation established.
Place: Marine View, 19th October 1917 0700: Supplied digging parties during the forenoon and again at night. 2nd Lieutenant Gemmell seconded from U.K. Lieutenant Falful transferred to Royal Flying Corps.
Place: Marine View, 20th October 1917 0830: Battalion received by Lt. Col. Gibson. Supplied digging parties at night.
Place: Marine View, 21st October 1917 Supplied digging parties at night. Captain Inglis transferred to A coy (company). Captain Sutherland from A to C. Lt. Kean from A to B coy & Lt. Gemmell posted to G coy.
Place: Marine View, 22nd October 1917 Transfers Captain Inglis A to B coy. Lt. Kean B to A coy. 2nd Lt. Gemmell G to B coy.
Place: Carnarvon, 22nd October 1917 Took over in the firing line from the 4th Norfolks A and D coy in the firing line. K coy in support and B coy in local reserve.
Place: Carnarvon, 23rd October 1917 Things very quiet in firing line.
Place: Carnarvon, 24th October 1917 Things very quiet in firing line.
Place: Carnarvon, 25th October 1917 Things very quiet in firing line.
Place: Gaza, 1st Nov 1917 Battalion in 1st line trenches organising Carnarvon Redoubt, Major J G Willison to hospital sick. Captain J Brett to 2nd in command of Battalion, Captain J Hamilton to command of A coy. Our bombardment of enemy position continued during the day. After dark gaps were cut by us in our own line? to permit egress of attacking troops of 156 Bgde. At 2300 attacking troops advanced to assault of Umbrella Hill and enemy heavily barraged our front line, especially Hereford Ridge and communications trenches and wire roads. Considerable damage to trenches but casualties slight, 10 O.R. wounded, 1 killed.
Place: Gaza 2nd Nov 1917
Intense bombardment by our artillery at 0300 and 0400. Captain Lt. L McKeever RAMC attached rendered valuable assistance in dressing wounded of attacking troops. Arrangements for evacuation of latter were very inadequate. Day passed quietly until 2210 when counter attack seemed to develop to our left. Rest of night quiet.
Place: Gaza 3rd Nov 1917
Captain J Hamilton left to command Pioneer coy. JG Hamilton to command
A coy. C coy relieved A coy in front line. Quiet day with some enemy shelling at night.
Place: Gaza 4th Nov 1917
Lt. Col. R G Maclaine A.SH took over command of Battalion from Lt Col Gibson. Quiet day, repair of trenches carried on and camouflage screen erected at night to hide carrying parties working from our lines to Umbrella Hill. Five minutes intense artillery fire at 2200.
Place: Gaza 5th Nov 1917
Enemy heavily bombarded Umbrella Hill no casualties in our line.
Place: Gaza 6th Nov 1917
Coys (Companys) withdrawn from trenches and concentrated at Carnavon Redoubt battalion organised on mobile footing marched at 1200 along seashore to position S of Wadi Hesy where our first line was taken up at dusk by A, B, and C Coys doing detached duty as support to artillery. The days march was about 11 miles over very heavy sand and in unusual heat, but the men although not in marching condition stood it very well.
Place: Gaza 8th Nov 1917
Outpost withdrawn at 0545. Battalion D coy 1 marched at 0620 and arrived N of Wadi Hesy at 0930 crossing Wadi in artillery formation as it was being shelled. Battalion in centre of Brigade attack with KOSB (Kings Own Scottish Borderers) on right and 1/5 RSF (Royal Scots Fusiliers) on left advanced to position of deployment at 1305 eight wheeled and advanced in attack formation B coy on right A coy on left C coy in support.
At 1400. Lt. Col. Maclain wounded when advance started was unfortunately the only officer who had time to go forward to see enemy position. At the outset the Battalion came under very heavy shrapnel fire while crossing the first ridge and suffered very heavy casualties from Howitzer fire in a gully at the foot of the first slope. *Left Battalion were drawn entirely off the line and A coy with them*, by a flanking party which kept up heavy MG Rifle fire. C coy at once ordered in to fill gap which however continued to increase as left Battalion moved further out. At 1500 enemy could be seen returning from their trenches and line was reorganised and waited for left Battalion to come into line before making further advance.
At 1630 2 coys 4 KOSB reposted to reinforce Battalion and were ordered to remain in echelon on left near where they could either be used to fill gap or continue in support of fresh advance.
At 1700 O.C. left Battalion reported a strong hostile counter attack on his left flank and therefore in rear of main advance and O.C. attacking troops ordered a general withdrawal to a position on high ground to West, where Battalion took up the right of the line in touch with 156 Brigade and dug in for the night. The spirit of the Battalion was excellent and the withdrawal much against the inclination of the men.
Casualties in this action, 1 officer Capt. Lt.L McKeever R.A.M.C. (attached) 6 - O.R. Killed.
5 officers, Lt Col. RG Maclaine. Lt WF Templeton. 2nd Lt A McNair. AB Paterson. W Guy remained on duty and 70 other rank wounded.
*I think this is the point at which possibly James Cummiskey gets killed.* (Further up it says that – ‘1/5 RSF (Royal Scots Fusiliers) on left’ - Then further down the doc – ‘Left Battalion were drawn entirely off the line and A coy with them’.
James is commemorated on Panel 18 of the Jerusalem Memorial.
Pte. John Cummusky
British Army 16th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.17th Jan 1917)
John Cummiskey was aged 25 when died on 17th January 1917. Born in Runcorn Cheshire he lived in Jarrow and enlisted in Cramlington. Son of the late John and Mary Cummusky of 7 Old Church Jarrow. On the 1911 census he is recorded as John Cummiskey age 19 Assistant Chemical Chemist at Chemical Works living with his parents John and Mary Cummiskey and family at 7 Old Church, Jarrow
John is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church, Jarrow.
Pte. Fred Cumpstey
British Army 12th Battalion Rifle Brigade
from:Blackburn
My Grandfather, Fred Cumpstey, was born on 7 September 1883 in Blackburn, Lancashire. He married Clara Heyes in Blackburn on 27 September 1902. At the outbreak of the Great War he volunteered to join Kitchener’s 2nd Army and at the time of his Enlistment on 4 September 1914 he was 31 years of age and at that time had 4 young children, ages 8 years, 7 years, 4 years and 12 months old.
He joined the 12th Battalion Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own), which was formed in Winchester in September 1914 subsequently moving to Blackdown in February 1915, to Witley and then in April 1915 to Larkhill. On 21 July 1915, the Battalion arrived at Southampton Docks and in the evening embarked on SS Viper to sail to Havre, France. The following day they arrived in St Omer before marching into billets at Tatinghem.
My Grandfather was severely wounded in the fierce fighting which occurred on 25 September 1915 at Pietre in a battle which was associated with the Battle of Loos. He survived, and was subsequently discharged on 16 May 1917 as a consequence of his wounds. Although disabled, his right leg was pinned at the knee and he suffered other injuries as a result of mortar fire and shrapnel, he lived an active and fulfilling life until his death in March 1963 in his 80th year. He was a remarkable man and my hero.
Sgt. C. H. Cundliffe
British Army 12th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment
(d.1st July 1916)
Sgt Cundliffe served with the 12th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment. On 1st July 1916 he was killed in action. He is buried at Railway Hollow Cemetery, Hebuterne.
Mjr. Boyd Alexander Cuninghame MID
British Army 5th Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
from:Blandford, Dorset
(d.16th March 1917)
Major Cuninghame was the son of William Boyd Cuninghame and Marion Harriett Cuninghame (nee Paterson); husband of Elsie Cuninghame (nee Burrell, now Lady Baker, of Ranston, Blandford, Dorset). He served in the South African War and was Mentioned in Despatches. He was 46 when he died and is buried in the Lubumbashi Cemetery in the Congo Democratic Republic, he was serving attached to the Northern Rhodesia Rifles.
Pte. George Cunliffe
British Army 7th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment
from:Sunderland
(d.6th Nov 1918)
George Cunliffe was my grandmother's only brother and my great great uncle. I new very little about him until recently when I found a number of medals which had been left to me by my late father a number of years ago. George was only 19 when he was killed in action on 6th of November 1918, 5 days before the end of the war. Having carried out some research, I have discovered that he served for the 7th South Staffordshire Regiment and is remembered with honour at the Vis-En-Artois Memorial in France. I do not know any other details regarding the circumstances or battle in which he was engaged at the time of his passing.
Pte. Thomas Cunliffe
British Army 2nd Btn. Grenadier Guards
from:Wigan
(d.23rd Oct 1915)
Thomas Cunliffe was my great uncle. He enlisted in the Grenadier Guards in June 1914 and then went to Caterham to undergo training. He joined with his best friend William Calderbank and sailed for France in January 1915 blissfully unaware that neither of them would see their home town again. They fought side by side at some notable and well documented engagements such as Hill 70 and the Battle of Loos and must have thought their luck would see them through. However this was not to be as after 9 months William was killed by a sniper and Thomas had the unenviable task of writing to William’s parents back in Wigan.
Dear Friends, I am sorry to inform you that your son got killed on the 7th. Poor lad he got hit in the head and his death was instantaneous. He has been in my mind ever since his death. A fellow came up the trenches and said “your mate has gone under”. I could hardly believe who it was at first and then he said “Bill Calderbank”. Well I felt as if I’d been hit. I went to see him, poor fellow. He had a decent burial. The Catholic priest was there and read over his dead body. He had only just put his head up over the trench and he got hit by a sniper. Accept my deepest sympathy. All his chums hope you will accept their deepest sympathy”.
The pathetic feature of this story is that the very next day after William was killed Thomas was wounded. A bomb exploded in the trench near him, blowing off one of his legs and damaging the other so severely that it later had to be amputated. He wrote to his parents, Joseph and Mary Cunliffe in Wigan, “Hope this finds you quite well as I am alive but hardly kicking” His letter goes on to describe the events that led up to his injury and his hopes and expectations to be back in Wigan for Christmas.
Unfortunately the story does not have a happy ending as on 23rd October Thomas died from his wounds. The lady superintendent at the hospital in Wimereux wrote to his parents telling them, “Your poor son got weaker and weaker in spite of all we tried to do for him. He will be buried here in the cemetery in Wimereux. It is a pretty place on a hillside and there are many flowers there in spring and summer. My assistant matron takes great interest in it and sees that it is nicely kept in order” Thomas will be remembered with pride and affection by our family.
VAD. Cunningham
Voluntary Aid Detachment No. 32 Stationary Hospital
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