| Regiment/Service: |
9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army) |
| Date Of Birth: |
06/06/1895
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| Died: |
01/07/1916 (Killed in Action) |
| Age: |
21 |
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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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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"
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