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Lords Cricket Ground
First World War - Roll of Honour
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Major B. A. Cuninghame
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In Memory of
Major BOYD ALEXANDER CUNINGHAME

5th Bn., Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
attd., Northern Rhodesia Rifles
who died age 46
on 16 March 1917
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.).
Remembered with honour
LUBUMBASHI CEMETERY
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Soldiers also engaged in active counter-guerrila operations: farm-burning, the destruction of Boer livestock and the removal of Boer families into concentration camps - policies begun under Roberts and continued under Kitchener. Soldiers had mixed feelings about these tasks: some, like Captain Boyd A. Cunningham (4/Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Militia), regarded 'orders to ravage some farms... [as] great fun';85 others regretted the destruction of livestock or emphasised that they only burnt farms from which they had been fired upon.
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Mrs J Cuninghame on behalf of her late nephew Major Boyd A Cuninghame on behalf of his wife for "1914-15 Star" 31-12-18

Mrs J Cuninghame,
Creich,
Fairlie
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Major Boyd Cuninghame, a highly regarded sportsman, cricketer, and polo player with a taste for adventure, had been commissioned by Robert Williams to lead an ox-wagon expedition to bring out the first copper from Katanga to the coast. In 1904 Captain Cuninghame cut 600 miles of road through the bush from the outpost of Moxico, itself 600 miles inland, into the Congo, returning with twenty tons of copper to Benguela. On his second expedition several years later he met up with Varian in the highlands to arrange to transport another twenty tons of copper the rest of the way to the coast by train.
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...the Northern Rhodesian Rifles (known as the Northern Rhodesian Volunteer Force, Mobile Column), the country's first purely military force. The creation of this unit was due to the private initiative of Major Boyd Alexander Cuninghame, a Scotsman who saw service in the Boer War...
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Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
4th Battalion
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Boyd Alex. Cuninghame .. 5 May 1894
Louis Gairdner Pearson .. 20 Mar 1895
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The transport arrangements are under the directions of Major Boyd A. Cuninghame, who left England a month ago in order to have the tansport ready by the time the expedition arrives. The party will land at Mossanedes, and proceed to Cassinga, which they will make their headquarters.
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When Major Boyd A. Cuninghame led the Northern Rhodesia Rifles from Broken Hill to the northern border in December, 1914, his wagon train carried among its general cargo the materials for the new telegraph line.
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DEPARTURES
Per the R.M.S. Kenilworth Castle, leaving Southampton today (Saturday):
MADEIRA
... Captain Boyd Cunninghame ...
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