Service No: 14555
Died: 01/09/1917
Age: 30
Interred in Bangor Old Abbey Churchyard (In South-East part)
Recorded on family memorial in Bangor Cemetery
Richard was born in Lisburn, Co Antrim, on the 26th May 1884, the son of Alexander Cumming and Marianne Macartney. The family moved to Bangor and lived in Ballymagee Street (later to became part of High Street) where his father Alexander was a grocer and car driver.
His occupation as recorded in the 1911 census was a draper.
He appears to have emigrated to Canada sometime after this as that is where he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 24th September 1914
He contracted acute nephritis in July 1917 and was invalided to England on the 18th August. He was admitted to the Royal Herbert Hospital in Woolwich where he died on 1st September 1917.
IN his will he left property and $400 to his mother.
His brother William also served and fell on the 1st July 1916.
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| Postcard of Ballymagee Street, Bangor (later High Street) from www.postcardsireland.com |
While Richard is commemorated on this family memorial in Bangor New Cemetery he is actually interred just a short distance away in the grounds of the Bangor Abbey. A little investigation would need to be done to but my suspicion would be that the headstone was erected when the father died and the mother took the opportunity to put both the sons names on it.
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