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Bacchus Marsh
Avenue of Honour

Acting Bombardier Charles Douglas Cumming

1873
Born in Bacchus Marsh, VIC
12/7/1915
Enlisted in the AIF, aged 42
20/5/1916
Embarked aboard the HMAT A7 Medic with the 8th Field Artillery Brigade 32nd Batterye
18/7/1916
Disembarked at Plymouth, England
The artillery brigades were reorganised and the 32nd Battery became the 108th Howitzer battery
29/10/1916
Promoted to Acting Bombardier
30/12/1916
Proceeding overseas to France
6/6/1917
Killed in action, Ploegsteert Wood, Belgium
7/6/1917
Burried at the Strand Military Cemetery, Belgium - plot 4 row C

Last updated by lee, Mon, 03 May 2021 14:21:57