PERSONAL NOTES
Mr Ralph Andrews, representing Amber Tips teas, is now on the Coast, having arrived from Christchurch last evening. He visits Reefton this evening. Mr Cunningham, of Hokitika, has received a communication to the effect that his son, Rifleman Charles Cunningham, has received a bayonet wound in the right hand. He is progressing favourably. -Greymouth Evening Star, 23/8/1916.
Rifleman Charles Cunningham (wounded) was born at Arahura, five miles from Hokitika, on July, 1892, and served his apprenticeship at the Arahura Dairy Factory. He was appointed manager of the Kumara Dairy Factory (1902), the position he held until he volunteered for the front. -Otago Witness, 30/8/1916.
ROLL OF HONOUR.
Word was received to-day conveying the sad news that Private Charles Cunningham, of Kumara, son of Mr Charles Cunningham of Arahura, had been killed in action on May 21st In France. The deceased was manager of the Kumara Dairy Factory when he enlisted. There are several brothers and sisters, including Mrs Glen of Kumara and Miss Florrie Cunningham of Hokitika. Many friends throughout the district will regret to hear of him having “gone west.” -Hokitika Guardian, 6/6/1917.
Mr Charles Cunningham on Tuesday evening received from the military authorities the sad news that his son. Rifleman C. Cunningham, had been killed inaction in France on May 21st. Charlie Cunningham was one of the most popular young men in tin’s district. He was a keen footballer, and contested in athletic sports on the Coast. He was an active and faithful member of the Anglican communion, being a member of the' Choir and Vestry of Holy Trinity Church at the time he enlisted in “Liverpool’s Own.” He was the first manager of the Kumara Dairy Factory, which position he relinquished in order to answer the call. He saw much fighting, his first experience being in assisting to suppress the Senussi revolt; then in France, where he was wounded; and, having recovered from his wound, he returned and made the supreme sacrifice. He was 24 years of age and a native of Arahura. “Greater love hath no man.” —Kumara Times. -Greymouth Evening Star, 7/6/1917.
Charles Cunningham died during the period of the war known as the Battle of Messines. It seems, from his army record, that what was reported in New Zealand as a bayonet wound in the hand was actually a gunshot wound in the chest. In April, 1917, he also spent some time in hospital with mumps.
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