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CUMMING, James Bricken
(Service number 6/2912)

Aliases
First Rank	Corporal	Last Rank	Sapper

Birth

Date	12/07/1887	Place of Birth	Edinburgh, Scotland

Enlistment Information

Date	15 Aug 1914-31 Dec 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	24 Hill St, Wellington
Occupation	Mason
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Robert Smith (sister), 47 Le Cren St, Timaru
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	7th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	9 October 1915
Transport	Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Engineers

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

Driver

Death

Date	3 September 1959	Age	74 years
Place of Death	Timaru
Cause
Notices	Timaru Herald, 4 September 1959
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 125, Plot 4
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

James Brechin Cumming married Elizabeth Forrest in 1921 at Chalmers Church, Timaru.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [16 May 2017]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [16 May 2017]

External Links

Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG

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