Identity
Person No.
12815
Service No.
73235
Last Name
First Name
James Cunningham
Initials
J C
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
41
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,779
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, by enemy shelling on the "B" Coy positions near Tobruk
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Private
Regiment
Unit
Secondary Unit
"B" Coy.
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Memorial
Memorial
Location
El Alamein, Matruh Governorate, Egypt
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
Column 121.
Unit History
Role at time of death
Mounted Rifles, later Armoured Reconnaissance
Status
Volunteer unit (pre-1913); Active Citizen Force (Reserve) from 1913
Part of
Lineage from the Royal Durban Rangers (1854) through several volunteer mounted units, unified as Natal Mounted Rifles 1888. Reactivated for the Boer War as Natal Mounted Infantry. Transferred to the Active Citizen Force 1913; converted from cavalry to armoured reconnaissance 1934. Renamed Queen Nandi Mounted Rifles 2019.
Notes
Son of William and Isobella Laidlaw, of "Morebattle", Kelso, Scotland. Brother of Mrs. J. C. Purvis, of Strand Street, Cape Town. Born in Kelso, Scotland. A bricklayer by profession.
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