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Captain Robert C Cunningham 4th Bn. Black Watch kia 1916

 
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DerekR
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 12:02 pm    Post subject: Captain Robert C Cunningham 4th Bn. Black Watch kia 1916 Reply with quote



Can anyone add any further information on the above officer?
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 3:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Son of the late William Ogilvie Cunningham and Christian Anne Cocks Cunningham according to CWGC and commemorated on Thiepval memorial. His medal card's on Ancestry. There's also a Cox family tree with him in it but unfortunately the page won't load for the moment....
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PS there are two photos of him on the imperial war museum website ...
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Born 1884 in St. Andrew, Dundee.
Son of William Ogilvie Cunningham and of Chistian Anne Cocks who had married in 1875 in Monifieth.
William was a partner in Messrs Malcolm, Ogilvie & Co. Ltd.
Captain Cunningham was the only combatant officer of "Dundee's Own" to come through the Battle of Loos unwounded and was awarded a MC for his actions. He lived in Broughty Ferry. (Dundee People's Journal 9/9/1916)

Awarded MC LGaz 2/6/1916 p.5572
2nd Lt. Robert Cocks Cunningham, R. Highrs., T.F.

There's a "odd" entry
LGaz 13/10/1916 p.9928
Royal Highlanders
2nd Lt. (temp. Capt.) R. C. Cunningham, M.C., relinquishes the temp, rank of Capt. on alteration in posting, with precedence as from 14th Nov. 1914. 4th Sept. 1916.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 5:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks folks.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dundee High School pupil but not on Memorial.Commemorated on Glenalmond College,St Andrews UNiversity Memorial and Roll of Honour,Forfarshire Cricket club and the Institute of Chartered Accountants England&Wales-Scottish Roll.
Captain of 1st Broughty Ferry Boys Brigade Coy at Broughty Ferry YMCA from August 1909 to August 1910.
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