CUMMING, Alexander
| Service Number: | 728 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 May 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 36th Heavy Artillery Group |
| Born: | Bridgewater, Victoria, Australia, 13 February 1890 |
| Home Town: | Queenscliff, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Soldier |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , 1 May 1940, aged 50 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Botany General Cemetery, New South Wales Section B Row 10 Grave 430 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 1 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 728, 36th Heavy Artillery Group | |
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| 30 Sep 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 728, 36th Heavy Artillery Group, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Sep 1916: | Embarked Gunner, 728, 36th Heavy Artillery Group, HMAT Aeneas, Sydney | |
| 1 Oct 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 728, 36th Heavy Artillery Group, Medically Unfit - returned to duty with Royal Australian Garrison Artillery |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Gunner Alexander Cumming (Service No:728) enlisted in the AIF on 1 May 1916 and was attached to 36th Heavy Artillery Group when he embarked from Sydney on 30 September 1916 on board HMAT Aeneas A60. Gunner Cumming was disembarked and discharged in Melbourne as medically unfit and returned to duty with the Royal Australian Garrison Artillery. Gunner Cumming was one of six siblings who served in WWI.
Born in 1890 in Bridgewater Victoria, Alec was the second of eight children of James Cumming (b1862 in Wigtownshire, Scotland) and first wife Mary Jane Redwood (b1865 in Bridgewater, Victoria). James was a Farmer in Scotland when he emigrated in 1884 and was working as a Chaff Cutter when he and Mary married in 1888 in Bridgewater, Victoria. James was a Dairy Farmer and Grazier, and had managed the Bendigo Butter Factory. James was renowned as an authority on pastures, and on cream and the manufacture of butter. James and Mary divorced in 1903 - James remarried and Mary relocated to Bridgetown in WA where she was Proprietoress of the Bridgetown Coffee Palace.
Alec enlisted in the Army in 1911, serving as a Private with the Royal Australian Garrison Artillery. In 1917 in Burrowa, NSW he married Jessie Ellen Sallaway (b1891 in Cobar, NSW). Alec and Jessie lived in South Australia, and Melbourne and Echuca in Victoria before moving to Sydney NSW in 1937. Alec was a Sergeant AAOC when he died in 1940. Jessie died in 1963.
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