CUMMING Alfred Lionel

  • First Name(s):
    Alfred 
    Lionel 
  • Surname:
    CUMMING
  • Service Number:
    A0
  • Rank:

    Second Lieutenant

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Air Force
  • Air Force:
    Royal Flying Corps
  • Former Units:
    General List
  • Date of Death:
    7th June 1917
  • Age At Death:
    25
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Varennes Military Cemetery, France, Grave I. K. 34.
  • Place of Birth:
    Chile, South America
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of James Henry and Ada Cumming, of Casilla, No. 978, Valparaiso

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CUMMING Alfred Lionel Is Named On These Memorials

Broadheath Christ Church WW1 War Memorial
Broadheath Village Hall WW1 Roll of Honour
Chalford Hill War Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

General List and Royal Flying Corps

Further Information About CUMMING Alfred Lionel

Additional information on the memorial: 2nd Lieut. R.F.C. France.

Alfred Cumming enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps at Worcester on 19th December 1916. On his attestation form he gave his home address as Eastbury Manor, Hallow, Worcester, his age as 24 and his occupation as a clerk.  He was discharged on 12th April 1917 as “his services being no longer required, having been selected for appointment to a temporary commission as 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) on the General List for duty with the R.F.C.”

A photograph of Second Lieutenant A.L. Cumming can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 23rd June 1917, available at Worcestershire Archives.

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