PERSONAL NOTES
Private Percy Cunningham was a son of Mr James Cunningham, formerly of the Swan Stables, and now of Christchurch. Private Cunningham, who was 21 years of age, was born at Otiake, where he received his primary education, proceeding from there to the Waitaki High School. On leaving there he entered the service of the Bank of New Zealand. He was a member of the Old Boys' Football Club, the Oamaru Boating Club, and the Oamaru Swimming Club, and was a bright and popular young man. He was in the Territorial Force, and was amongst the first to enlist for active service, leaving with the 10th (North Otago) Company of the Otago Battalion. A private message says that Private Cunningham was killed on May 2nd. [Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12567, 14 June 1915, Page 7]
OUR BOYS' LETTERS.
The following extracts are from a letter from Sergeant J. T. C. Cunningham [his brother] to Quartermaster Cunningham, and refer to the death of Corporal P. Cunningham, who left the National Bank in Oamaru to go to the front:— "I saw one of the men who was in the trench with him. It would appear that they went forward into an advanced trench and got isolated. They were with Colonel Moir, 76 of them went into it on Sunday night; 48 answered the roll call on Monday, and only 15 of them got out on Tuesday night. Percy was shot through the temple and died instantaneously. All the boys with him give me great accounts of him. When Lieut. Cowan was hit he and an Australian volunteered and went out in the front of the trench under a heavy fire and got him safely into the trench, without being touched. Three or four days later they went into the other place. It was in passing an order back that he had to expose himself and his comrades think that a sniper got him. I can only say that if it should be my lot to go out, I should wish to have the same death and be spoken of as highly by my comrades." [Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12605, 31 July 1915, Page 8]
Private Percy Cunningham was a son of Mr James Cunningham, formerly of the Swan Stables, and now of Christchurch. Private Cunningham, who was 21 years of age, was born at Otiake, where he received his primary education, proceeding from there to the Waitaki High School. On leaving there he entered the service of the Bank of New Zealand. He was a member of the Old Boys' Football Club, the Oamaru Boating Club, and the Oamaru Swimming Club, and was a bright and popular young man. He was in the Territorial Force, and was amongst the first to enlist for active service, leaving with the 10th (North Otago) Company of the Otago Battalion. A private message says that Private Cunningham was killed on May 2nd. [Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12567, 14 June 1915, Page 7]
OUR BOYS' LETTERS.
The following extracts are from a letter from Sergeant J. T. C. Cunningham [his brother] to Quartermaster Cunningham, and refer to the death of Corporal P. Cunningham, who left the National Bank in Oamaru to go to the front:— "I saw one of the men who was in the trench with him. It would appear that they went forward into an advanced trench and got isolated. They were with Colonel Moir, 76 of them went into it on Sunday night; 48 answered the roll call on Monday, and only 15 of them got out on Tuesday night. Percy was shot through the temple and died instantaneously. All the boys with him give me great accounts of him. When Lieut. Cowan was hit he and an Australian volunteered and went out in the front of the trench under a heavy fire and got him safely into the trench, without being touched. Three or four days later they went into the other place. It was in passing an order back that he had to expose himself and his comrades think that a sniper got him. I can only say that if it should be my lot to go out, I should wish to have the same death and be spoken of as highly by my comrades." [Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12605, 31 July 1915, Page 8]
PERSONAL NOTES
Private Percy Cunningham was a son of Mr James Cunningham, formerly of the Swan Stables, and now of Christchurch. Private Cunningham, who was 21 years of age, was born at Otiake, where he received his primary education, proceeding from there to the Waitaki High School. On leaving there he entered the service of the Bank of New Zealand. He was a member of the Old Boys' Football Club, the Oamaru Boating Club, and the Oamaru Swimming Club, and was a bright and popular young man. He was in the Territorial Force, and was amongst the first to enlist for active service, leaving with the 10th (North Otago) Company of the Otago Battalion. A private message says that Private Cunningham was killed on May 2nd. [Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12567, 14 June 1915, Page 7]
OUR BOYS' LETTERS.
The following extracts are from a letter from Sergeant J. T. C. Cunningham [his brother] to Quartermaster Cunningham, and refer to the death of Corporal P. Cunningham, who left the National Bank in Oamaru to go to the front:— "I saw one of the men who was in the trench with him. It would appear that they went forward into an advanced trench and got isolated. They were with Colonel Moir, 76 of them went into it on Sunday night; 48 answered the roll call on Monday, and only 15 of them got out on Tuesday night. Percy was shot through the temple and died instantaneously. All the boys with him give me great accounts of him. When Lieut. Cowan was hit he and an Australian volunteered and went out in the front of the trench under a heavy fire and got him safely into the trench, without being touched. Three or four days later they went into the other place. It was in passing an order back that he had to expose himself and his comrades think that a sniper got him. I can only say that if it should be my lot to go out, I should wish to have the same death and be spoken of as highly by my comrades." [Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12605, 31 July 1915, Page 8]
Private Percy Cunningham was a son of Mr James Cunningham, formerly of the Swan Stables, and now of Christchurch. Private Cunningham, who was 21 years of age, was born at Otiake, where he received his primary education, proceeding from there to the Waitaki High School. On leaving there he entered the service of the Bank of New Zealand. He was a member of the Old Boys' Football Club, the Oamaru Boating Club, and the Oamaru Swimming Club, and was a bright and popular young man. He was in the Territorial Force, and was amongst the first to enlist for active service, leaving with the 10th (North Otago) Company of the Otago Battalion. A private message says that Private Cunningham was killed on May 2nd. [Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12567, 14 June 1915, Page 7]
OUR BOYS' LETTERS.
The following extracts are from a letter from Sergeant J. T. C. Cunningham [his brother] to Quartermaster Cunningham, and refer to the death of Corporal P. Cunningham, who left the National Bank in Oamaru to go to the front:— "I saw one of the men who was in the trench with him. It would appear that they went forward into an advanced trench and got isolated. They were with Colonel Moir, 76 of them went into it on Sunday night; 48 answered the roll call on Monday, and only 15 of them got out on Tuesday night. Percy was shot through the temple and died instantaneously. All the boys with him give me great accounts of him. When Lieut. Cowan was hit he and an Australian volunteered and went out in the front of the trench under a heavy fire and got him safely into the trench, without being touched. Three or four days later they went into the other place. It was in passing an order back that he had to expose himself and his comrades think that a sniper got him. I can only say that if it should be my lot to go out, I should wish to have the same death and be spoken of as highly by my comrades." [Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12605, 31 July 1915, Page 8]
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