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CUNNINGHAM, Frederick James
(Service number 13425)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Lance Corporal

Birth

Date	20 July 1894	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Hilton
Occupation	Farm hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	James Cunningham (father), Hilton, South Canterbury, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	13th Reinforcements, J Company
Date	27 May 1916
Transport	Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Devonport, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	31 March 1918	Age	24
Place of Death	France
Cause	Died of wounds
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France
Memorial Reference	XXXIII. B. 23
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of James and the late Emma Cunningham, of Hilton, Canterbury

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [24 Nov 2013]; Military Record held at Archives New Zealand, Wellington Office Item ID R20994474 - digitised

External Links

Researched and Written by

John Sutherland, SC branch NZSG

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