Private Robert Cumming
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of birth: 1884-02-15
Place of birth: Lockerbie Dumfrieshire Scotland
Next of kin: Annie Cumming; wife; 2421 - 24A St., Glengarry, Calgary, Alberta
Marital status: married
Occupation (attested): Street car motorman
Religion: Presbyterian
Date of death:
1917-04-09
Cause of death:
Died of wounds
Buried:
Quatre-Vents Military Cemetery, II. B. 4.
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 737033
Highest Rank:
Private
(16th Battalion)
Rank detail
- Private (Army).
- Private (Army).
- Private, 16th Battalion, Infantry (Army).
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: Was hit in the stomach and immediately taken to a dressing station, later being evacuated to No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station, where he died the following day.
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RESEARCH INFORMATION
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CWGC ID: 305191
LAC ID:
129030
Service file: B2210-S046
Uploader's Notes:
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gordon Cumming of Dinwoodie, Lockerbie, Scotland; husband of Mrs. A. Cumming of 2421 - 24A St., Glengarry, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In his military files at the LAC in Ottawa, Robert Cumming was 'fit'. He had a ruddy complexion, blue eyes, light brown hair and was 32 years old. His left testicle was absent and considered to be undescended. He had previous experience with the 2nd Dragoon Guards in England for 9 months. He sailed on the SS Tuscania.
He immigrated to Canada in 1904. He and his wife had two children according to the 1911 census: Robert, 5 years of age and Jemima: 3.
He is commemorated on the Scarboro United Church stained glass window in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Uploader's Research notes: Details of death from Ancestry.com which includes a digitized image of the casualty form from the "Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948” database [Private Army Canadian Infantry 17th Reserve Battalion Private Army Canadian Infantry 113th Battalion Private Army Canadian Infantry 16th Battalion ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2021-12-29