In Memory Of

CUNINGHAME, BOYD ALEXANDER

Service Details
Age:
 45
Date of Birth:
 1871-07-19
Rank:
 Major
Unit:
 5th Bn.
Unit 2:
 attd. Northern Rhodesia Rifles
Regiment:
 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Date of Death:
 1917-03-16
Cause of Death:
 Died of typhoid fever, at Lubumbashi, after service against the Germans in East Africa
Commemoration
Cemetery:
 LUBUMBASHI CEMETERY
Country:
 Congo (Democratic Republic)
Additional Information
Decorations:
 Mentioned in Despatches
Citations:
 LG Sup 29 July 1902 pg. 4851 - Lord Kitchener's Despatch 23 June 1902
Son of William Boyd Cuninghame and Marion Harriett Cuninghame (nee Paterson); husband of Elsie Cuninghame (nee Burrell, now Lady Baker, of Ranston, Blandford, Dorset). Served in the South African War. (Mentioned in Despatches.). b. 19th July 1871, Australia. In the Boer War he served in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Major Cunninghame belonged to an old West of Scotland family. He married in 1916 Elsie, daughter of R Burrell, Thetford. Cricketer for Free Foresters (1893), Scotland (1899), Marylebone Cricket Club (1899)