Mark Hugh CUMMINGS

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Service Number:	5072
Enlisted:	18 January 1916, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	48th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Cowell, South Australia, 5 September 1896
Home Town:	Katanning, Western Australia
Schooling:	Katanning Public School, Western Australia
Occupation:	Farm hand
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 9 April 1917, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Memorialised on a Headstone in Sheringa Cemetery, South Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

18 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5072, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
31 Mar 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 5072, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: ''
31 Mar 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 5072, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Shropshire, Fremantle
13 Aug 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 48th Infantry Battalion
15 Aug 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 5072, 48th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières
9 Apr 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 5072, 48th Infantry Battalion

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Headstone Inscription, Sheringa Cemetery, Sheringa, South Australia.

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

OUR DEAR SON, GRANDSON & BROTHER

No. 2167 PRIVATE GEOFFREY IVON CUMMINGS

IMPERIAL CAMEL CORPS, LATE 3^rd LIGHT HORSE.

KILLED IN ACTION, IN PALESTINE.

APRIL 11, 1918.

AGED 22 YEARS, 8 MONTHS.

ALSO OF

OUR TWO NEPHEWS & GRANDSONS.

TROOPER ALLAN GUY MONFRAY CUMMINGS

KILLED ON GALLIPOLI, JUNE 9, 1915.

AGED 25 YEARS.

AND

HUGH MARK CUMMINGS

BROTHER OF THE ABOVE

KILLED IN FRANCE, APRIL 9, 1917.

AGED 20 YEARS

“THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY,

AND THEIR SOULS TO GOD”.

“THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE”.

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal