Walter Herbert CUNNINGHAM MM

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CUNNINGHAM, Walter Herbert

Service Number:	2907
Enlisted:	5 August 1915, Liverpool, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	15th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia, 5 December 1896
Home Town:	Rozelle, Leichhardt, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Butcher's labourer
Died:	Balmain, New South Wales, Australia, 27 July 1968, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Field Of Mars Cemetery, Ryde, NSW Roman Catholic Section DD 96 FOM-RMCT-SCDD-601-0096
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World War 1 Service

5 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Liverpool, New South Wales
14 Mar 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2907, 31st Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: ''
14 Mar 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2907, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Melbourne
26 May 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2907, 15th Infantry Battalion
27 Sep 1918:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 2907, 15th Infantry Battalion, "The Last Hundred Days"
27 Jul 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1

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Biography

Biography contributed by Shayne Cunningham

Son of William James and Annie Cunningham. Married Ruby Wiseman in 1924. Second marriage to Honorah Moody (nee Duggan)

Worked for NSW Railways from 1926 - 1960

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