BRIG. CUNNINGHAM
RECENT PROMOTION
WELL-KNOWN BARRISTER
The promotion of Colonel W. H. Cunningham, C.8.E., D.5.0., V.D., to the rank of Brigadier commanding the Bth Infantry Brigade Group, Second N.Z.E.F., has been gazetted.
In civil life Brigadier Cunningham was a well-known Wellington barrister
and solicitor, and for four or five years prior to joining the Expeditionary Force he was Crown Prosecutor at Wellington. During the 1914-18 war he served in France, Belgium, Egypt, and Gallipoli. He commanded the 2nd Battalion of the Wellington Regiment from March, 1916, until the end of the war, with the exception of a period of three months when he was in charge of the Reserve Battalion and Reserve Brigade at Sling Camp. He was mentioned four times in dispatches and gained the D.S.O. and the Order of St. Stanislaus, third class, a Russian decoration.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1941, Page 11
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