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11553   Private John Cumberland
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Dated added: 30/12/2015   Last updated: 13/02/2021
Personal Details
Regiment/Service: 9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Date Of Birth: 06/06/1895
Died: 01/07/1916 (Killed in Action)
Age: 21
Summary      
John Cumberland was the son of William John and Mary Cumberland. He was born on 6th June 1895. He was one of ten children, eight surviving, all born in the Benburb area. William John Cumberland had been an army man, serving for seventeen years. By 1911, John had left school and was a farm labourer. Both John and his brother James joined the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on the same day. They have consecutive service numbers – James was 11554, John was 11553. Private John Cumberland and his brother James were killed in the first hours of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916.
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Cemetery Details
Cemetery: Thiepval Memorial
  Thiepval, Somme
Grave Ref: Face 4D-5B
CWGC Casualty 757940
Summary      
The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, next to the village of Thiepval, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929). Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century"
Local Memorial Details

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1 Dungannon War Memorial - Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers - WWI - Panel 1 Dungannon
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1 1901 Census lists Cumberland family Lists John as age 5 at house 6 in Roan, Benburb, Tyrone
2 1911 Census lists Cumberland family Lists John as age 16 at house 1 in Kilnacart, Derrygortrevy, Tyrone
3 Cumberland Family Details of the family including marriages.
4 National Archives UK Medal Card can be purchased here
5 Presbyterian ROH Eglish John Cumberland, Kilnacart, killed in action
6 Private James Cumberland Brother of John Cumberland
Dungannon District's War Dead Acknowledgements 2015-2023