CUNNINGHAM, Norman
| Service Number: | 2290 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 November 1915, Served in Boer War |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Emerald Hill, Victoria, Australia, August 1873 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Butcher |
| Died: | Killed in Action , France, 14 February 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz, France Plot II, Row I, Grave No. 6 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Nov 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2290, 31st Infantry Battalion, Served in Boer War | |
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| 14 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, 2290, 31st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 14 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 2290, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Melbourne | |
| 14 Feb 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2290, 1st Pioneer Battalion, KIA by anti aircraft fire |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Awaiting memorialisation at Sandgate Cemetery.
106 years ago today, on the 14th February 1917, Private Norman Elliot Cunningham, 1st Australian Pioneer Battalion (Reg No-2290), butcher from Thorn Street, Newcastle, New South Wales, father of two step-children, Thomas Joseph & Catherine Mary Channell, was Killed in Action from Anti-Aircraft Artillery Fire at the Somme.
Born at Emerald Hill, Melbourne, Victoria about 1879 to George (died 11.4.1904, Melbourne General Cemetery) and Anne Pardo Cunningham nee Nickless (died 18.7.1917, Melbourne General Cemetery); husband of Marcella Cunningham nee Channell (married 1908, Parramatta, N.S.W., died 16.5.1947, age 78, 30 years a widow, sleeping here) of 9 Read or Reid Street, Newcastle N.S.W. and Shepherds Lane off Military Road, Newcastle N.S.W. and Crown Street, Stockton N.S.W. and Hill Street, Belmont, N.S.W.
No Roll of Honour notices located (very sad).
Norman is resting at Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz, France. Plot II Row I Grave 6.
Mr. Cunningham’s name has been inscribed in the Book of Gold. Name not inscribed on the Gardner Memorial or the Newcastle & Northern District Branch Meat Workers' Union Honour Roll.
Place of Association – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
There is no memorial inscription on the gravesite plaque for wife Marcella to tell us of the loss of her husband during The Great War, and I am unable to erect a Memorial cross, so I have placed poppies in remembrance of Norman’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. CATHOLIC 2-49. 116.
Also served Boer War.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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