During the 10 am Holy Communion Service on Sunday 25th October 2015, the congregation at St Michael’s Church remembered the fourth man on the memorial to lose his life in WW1. Frank Leonard Cunningham died of wounds at the Australian Hospital, Wimereux, Near Boulogne on 1st October 1915, 100 years ago this month.
Frank Cunningham was the only child of Joseph Cunningham, an academic and Fellow of the Zoological Society, and his wife Sophia. A reservist with the Northumberland Hussars Yeomanry since 1909, at the outbreak of war he was called up, leaving his job at the Glasgow branch of the Vacuum Oil Company.
His parents moved to Chiswick around the time of the Great War living first at 63 St Mary’s Grove, then 35 Wavenden Avenue where they lived until their deaths in the second half of the 1930s. After his son's death, Joseph Cunningham, edited and published his son’s diaries and letters.
To read Frank Cunningham's biography and those of the other 33 men on the memorial inside St Michael's Church, click here
To read contents of the Frank Cunningham's diaries and letters click here
Frank Cunningham was the only child of Joseph Cunningham, an academic and Fellow of the Zoological Society, and his wife Sophia. A reservist with the Northumberland Hussars Yeomanry since 1909, at the outbreak of war he was called up, leaving his job at the Glasgow branch of the Vacuum Oil Company.
His parents moved to Chiswick around the time of the Great War living first at 63 St Mary’s Grove, then 35 Wavenden Avenue where they lived until their deaths in the second half of the 1930s. After his son's death, Joseph Cunningham, edited and published his son’s diaries and letters.
To read Frank Cunningham's biography and those of the other 33 men on the memorial inside St Michael's Church, click here
To read contents of the Frank Cunningham's diaries and letters click here