CUMMING, Ronald Fletcher Hawthorne
| Service Number: | V374556 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 March 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 16th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 25 August 1897 |
| Home Town: | Tatura, Greater Shepparton, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Water Bailiff |
| Died: | Moama, New South Wales, Australia, 2 April 1989, aged 91 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 28 Mar 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, V374556, 16th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
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| 1 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, V374556, 16th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sergeant Ronald Fletcher Hawthorne Cumming (Service No:V374556) enlisted in the ACMF on 28 March 1942 and was attached to 16 Battalion VDC when he was Discharged on 1 October 1945. Sergeant Cumming had previously served in WWI (Private; Service No:1165) in Gallipoli and was one of six brothers and a step brother who enlisted in WWI.
Born in 1895 in Bendigo Victoria, Ron was the youngest 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 immigrated in 1884, and was a Chaff Cutter in Bridgewater in 1888 when he and Mary married. Following a Divorce in 1903, James remarried and Mary relocated to Bridgetown WA.
Ron worked as a Boundary Rider in Bendigo, Victoria before enlisting in WWI. Following his return, he was a Farmer at Ouyen in the Wimmera, Victoria and in 1921 in Melbourne, Victoria he married Doris Leslie Barlow (b1903 in Yorkshire, England) - Doris was a Clerk in Melbourne and had immigrated with her family in 1912. Ron and Doris divorced in 1928, and Ron remarried to Leila May Farrell (b1905 in Cobram, Victoria). Ron worked as a Water Bailiff for the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission and he and Leila lived in Tatura in the Goulburn Valley and Melbourne, Victoria. Ron and Leila retired to Moama, NSW where Ron died in 1989 and Leila in 1994.
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