Stephen CUNNINGHAM

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CUNNINGHAM, Stephen

Service Numbers:	7701, NX8637
Enlisted:	12 October 1939
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	9th Division Headquarters
Born:	Turramurra, New South Wales, Australia, 30 May 1900
Home Town:	Turramurra, Ku-ring-gai, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Killed in Action (drowned), Libya, 12 October 1941, aged 41 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated: - Column 89, Alamein Memorial, El Alamein, Maṭrūḥ, Egypt.
Memorials:	Alamein Memorial (El Alamein), Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket Railways Traffic Branch Roll of Honour, Turramurra Memorial Park Memorial Gates

World War 1 Service

28 Feb 1918:	Involvement Private, 7701, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: ''
28 Feb 1918:	Embarked Private, 7701, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne
24 Jul 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private

World War 2 Service

12 Oct 1939:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, NX8637
12 Oct 1939:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX8637
12 Oct 1941:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, NX8637, 9th Division Headquarters

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Biography contributed by Dianne Black

Parents: - George Francis Cunningham and Ellen Newsom Carr married 1891, Dubbo, New South Wales.

Wife: - Ellen Mallam, (married 1930, in Chatswood, New South Wales) of Turramurra, New South Wales, Australia.

Corporal Stephen Cunningham was part of the 9th Division HQ Advance Party evacuating from Tobruk. He drowned when the Lighter No A47 army landing vessel he was aboard was sunk by enemy action. His remains were not recovered.

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