Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private T. Cunningham, Royal Sussex Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (5382 Pte. T. Cunningham, 1st. Rl. Sussex Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5382 Pte. T. Cunningham. Rl: Sussex Regt.) minor contact marks and edge bruising, very fine (2) £120-£160

Thomas Henry Cunningham was born in Houghton, Arundel, Sussex, in 1878 and attested for the Royal Sussex Regiment at Chichester on 8 June 1897. He served with the 1st Battalion in Malta from 9 September 1899, and then in South Africa during the Boer War from 19 February 1900 to 14 December 1902. After two years’ further service in India, he returned home on 7 January 1905, and transferred to the reserve on 12 January of that year. He was discharged on 7 June 1909, after 12 years’ service, and died in Chichester on 3 March 1952.