Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookon leading his men under heavy fire most determinedly
and gallantly, till he got to an open patch, where he was struck down,
mortally wounded. 2nd Lieut. Bennett bravely went to his side, to find
Capt. Cullinan riddled with five or six bullets and dead." And Major
Hendricks: "I was in the firing line with him not half an hour before
he was shot. We were in a thunder storm together and were wet to the
skin. Suddenly I received an order to reinforce our other battn. on
a flank, and sent Major Drage's company, to which your son belonged,
to carry out the duty. Your son died, as he had lived, a noble hero,
never thinking for one moment of himself, telling the men to go on and
leave him. He was then shot through the head. His death was practically
instantaneous. After the 12 months I have known your son, I must say I
looked on him as a dear pal, and one of the best officers in the regt.
He had endeared himself to one and all." At Dublin University he was
a member of the Rugby football club, and played for the first fifteen
for three years, obtaining his colours in the year 1900-1, and was also
record secretary of the University Historical Debating Society.
[Illustration: =Robert Hornidge Cullinan.=]
=CULLIP, ALEXANDER GEORGE HOLLIS=, Bugler, R.M.L.I. (Ports.),
16865, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=CUMMING, COLIN EDWARD=, M.A. (Hons. Edin.), Lieut., 103rd
Battery, R.F.A. 31st Brigade (28th Division), 2nd _s._ of
Robert Charles Cumming, of Edinburgh, formerly of Stafford, retired
Bank Manager, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of the late David Duff,
of Calcutta, and grandson of the late Capt. John Cumming, 26th
(Cameronians), 4th (King's Own) and 80th Foot; _b._ Stafford,
March, 1890; educ. at Royal High School, Edinburgh, 1902-7 ("Dux" in
1907 and gold medallist in Latin, Greek and French), and Edinburgh
University (M.A. with first-class honours in Classical Literature,
1911). At the University, where he was highly esteemed and beloved,
he was an active member of the O.T.C., and got his commission in the
R.F.A. Reserve, 16 Sept. 1909. While preparing for the Indian Civil
Service he was offered an engineering cadetship in the Transvaal
gold-mining industry, and, solely with a view to the family interests,
he accepted this, relinquishing his Indian aspirations, and went to
Johannesburg in 1913. His one year in Africa gave promise of rare
success, but, at his country's call, he gained permission to come home
with the Imperial troops, and, going straight to the Scottish R.F.A.
headquarters, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 22 Sept. 1914, and was soon
selected as Adjutant. Appointed to the 103rd Battery, then stationed
at Winchester, where he did further strenuous work, he accompanied
the Battery to the Front in Jan. 1915. He was killed in action by
shell near Ypres, 24 Feb. 1915; _unm._ The Major in command (now
Lieut.-Col. Hope, D.S.O.), wrote that they had been shelled for about
an hour. Their dug-out was hit, and when the Major, himself wounded,
became conscious, Cumming was trying to help him out of the débris when
another shell arrived and they were both knocked senseless. Lieut.
Cumming died during the night in hospital, never having regained
consciousness. He was buried in the cemetery at Poperinghe. After his
death he was gazetted to a full Lieutenancy, to rank as from 8 Dec.
1914.
[Illustration: =Colin Edward Cumming.=]
=CUMMING, THOMAS SUMMERS=, Private, No. 14807, A Coy., 12th Battn.
The Royal Scots, _s._ of Archibald Matheson Cumming, of 9, Dobbies
Loan, Glasgow, by his wife, Barbara, dau. of Walter Buchanan; _b._
Glasgow 3 June, 1896; educ. there; enlisted Sept. 1914, and was killed
in action at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; _unm._ From information supplied
by the Red Cross, it appears that he was shot through the head when he
had just got over our own parapet preliminary to the charge.
=CUNLIFFE, THOMAS HENRY WITHERS=, Capt., 1st Battn. Lancashire
Fusiliers, only _s._ of the late Robert Ellis Cunliffe, of The
Croft, Ambleside, Solicitor, by his wife, Helen (The Croft, Ambleside),
dau. of Henry Sharp, of Townend, Deepcar, Yorks; _b._ Pendleton,
Manchester, 9 July, 1885; educ. Bilton Grange and Rugby; obtained his
commission in the Lancashire Fusiliers from the Militia, 29 Nov. 1905,
and was promoted Lieut. 6 Feb. 1910, and Capt. 17 March, 1915. Capt.
Cunliffe was with his regt. in India when war broke out, and proceeded
with it to Gallipoli, where he was killed in action on Gurkha Bluff,
4 June, 1915, while in charge of the machine gun section of his
regt. He was buried in the regimental cemetery at Lancashire Landing;
_unm._ Col. Ormond, Lancashire Fusiliers, wrote: "His handling of
the machine guns, in the position after the Turks had been charged,
was, I understand, masterly. He was well in front of the line screened
from the enemy's view by a bushy shrub. His guns pointed across the
front of our position, so that when the Turks charged at night he raked
their ranks right and left. His knowledge of his work, his command of
his company and his great natural gifts marked him out for a great
career.... The very gallant Cunliffe worked his machine guns and was
killed. His great courage and skill had been of the utmost value in
the operations.... Capt. Cunliffe was launched into deep water at the
landing on the Peninsula, and swam to shore fully equipped with rifle
and pack under heavy fire, a feat which only a very fine swimmer could
have accomplished. His guns could not be landed, but he collected his
gun teams on the beach and marched them up to fill the gap between
Capt. Haworth and Capt. Shaw's detachments, so linking up the battn.
and restoring its internal communications."
[Illustration: =Thomas H. W. Cunliffe.=]
=PICKERSGILL-CUNLIFFE, JOHN CUNLIFFE=, of Cobb Court, Cootham,
Pulborough, Sussex, Capt., 6th, attached 4th, Battn. Worcestershire
Regt., elder _s._ of the late Charles Pickersgill-Cunliffe, of
Beacon Hill Park, Hindhead, Surrey, by his wife, Audrey (Crossways,
Cootham, Pulborough, Sussex), dau. of Charles Hoskins Master, and
nephew of Harry Pickersgill-Cunliffe, of Staughton Manor, Huntingdon;
_b._ Barrow Green House, Oxted, co. Surrey, 27 Jan. 1884; educ.
Haileybury College; joined the Sussex Militia in 1898, and served in
the South African War, 1901-2, receiving the Queen's medal with clasp.
He was gazetted to the 2nd Worcesters from the Militia, 4 July, 1903,
and promoted Lieut., 4 April, 1907; served in Africa, Ceylon and
India, and retired 1 July, 1913. He went on the Cape to Cairo Motor
Expedition, arriving at Cape Town, 5 Aug. 1913, and leaving Broken
Hill, Jan. 8, 1914. On mobilization, 4 Aug. 1914, he rejoined his old
regt., was promoted Capt., 1 Sept., went to France, 27 Aug. 1914, and
was wounded in action near Lille, 24 Oct. following, and invalided
home. On recovery he left 12 May, 1915, to join his regt. at the
Dardanelles and was killed in action there 4 June, 1915; _unm._
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