CUNNINGHAME, William Alan Fairlie
| Service Number: | 1343 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 March 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 5th Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Delite, Victoria, Australia, 31 January 1993 |
| Home Town: | Murringo, Young, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | All Saints College Bathurst New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Engineer |
| Died: | Gordon, New South Wales, Australia, 15 December 1981, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Murringo Honour Roll, Murringo War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 1343, 1st Field Company Engineers | |
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| 29 Mar 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 1343, 5th Pioneer Battalion, AIF WWI Nominal Roll Australian War Memorial Home AWM133 12 - Nominal roll of Australian Imperial Force who left Australia for service abroad, 1914-18 War: Craig G - Czerney T People William Alan Fairlie Cunninghame Rank; Lieutenant Unit; 5th Australian Pioneer Battalion Conflict/Operation; First World War, 1914-1918 Enlistment Date; 1915-03-29 Fate; Returned to Australia Fate Date; 13 April 1919 | |
| 15 Sep 1915: | Involvement Sapper, 1343, 1st Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: SS Makarini embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 15 Sep 1915: | Embarked Sapper, 1343, 1st Field Company Engineers, SS Makarini, Melbourne | |
| 16 Sep 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 5th Pioneer Battalion, National Archives Australia Record search Name search Cunninghame, William Alan Fairlie Category WW 2 Service number; 1343 View digital copy Page 20 | |
| 2 Aug 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 1343, 5th Pioneer Battalion, Position Terminated. | |
| 13 Apr 1919: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 5th Pioneer Battalion | |
| 3 Oct 1919: | Honoured Military Cross, London Gazette; 4 October 1919 on page 12371 at position 3. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Hamish Robson
'Sir' William Alan Fairlie-Cunnighame, He was educated at All Saints College in Bathurst NSW and then went onto study at Sydney University and was a Lieutenant of the 5th Pioneers who served in World War I. In 1929, he married Irene Alice, daughter of Henry Margrave Terry, with whom he had a son named William Henry, born in 1930. They resided on Coolong Road in Vaucluse, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Post War
Occupations
Teacher 1937 – 1942, Vaucluse, NSW, Australia
Engineer 1943 – 1958, CSIRO, National Standards Lab, NSW, Australia
Death
Death; Cuninghame W.A.F. : Death 15 Dec 1981, Gordon, NSW.
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