Skip to content ↓

View entry

Back to search results

Name: CUNNINGHAM, Harold Tweedale DSO (Lieut.-Col.)

image of individual

Birth Date: 24 July 1880 Ambala, Bengal

Death Date: 22 June 1960 Cape Town

First Date: 1922

Profession: Planter

Area: Hoey's Bridge, 1922 Enarti, Soy

Married: In Rondebosch 19 Aug 1913 Dorothy Georgina Annie Moresby-White b. 10 Nov 1890 Modderport, Ladybrand, S. Africa, d. 18 June 1958 Kitale

Children: Peter Moresby (17 June 1920 Falmouth-30 Aug 2006 Sidmouth)

Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Debrett, Red 31, Hut, Red 22, DSO, Richardson

War Service: Royal Artillery and Army Ordnance Dept. - was a QMG, GHQ, British Armies in France 20/2/18

General Information:

Debrett - entered RA 1899, became Major 1914, Brevet Lieut.-Col. 1919, and Lieut.-Col. (retired) 1921; Lieut.-Col. RA Reserve of Officers; China 1900 (medal), European War 1915-18 (despatches, DSO, Brevet Lieut.-Col., Legion of Honour)
DSO - retired 25/8/21
Richardson 1925 - Nairobi station - "I was delighted to see Harold and Dorothy on the platform …….. Both looking very well." "Thence fair to Kitale ….. Where we had a cup of coffee in the Bahate Hotel that Dorothy used to run ……."
Richardson 1929 - Soy - "to Enarti near Soy to stay a couple of nights with Harold and Dorothy Cunningham at their house 'Enarti'.(NRT = No Red Tape) ……. Dorothy by the way drives her own motor lorry as a business. She is now going to transport maize and the contract involves 2000 miles in all of motoring over rough roads. Dorothy is really most enterprising.
Gazette - 26/9/1923 - Voters Register - Plateau North - Lt-Col Harold Tweedale Cunningham DSO, Planter, PO Kitale and Mrs Dorothy Cunningham, Married, PO Kitale
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Trans Nzoia Voters List

Back to search results