LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Hugh Francis CUMMING
Service No: 56797
Born: Oakleigh VIC, 26 January 1903
Enlisted in the RAAF: 2 June 1942
Unit: No. 80 Squadron
Died: Ground Accident, Townsville QLD, 3 December 1943, Aged 40 Years
Buried: Townsville War Cemetery, Queensland
CWGC Additional Information: Son of James and Ellen Cumming; husband of Rose Dorcas Elizabeth Cumming, of Chelsea, Victoria
Roll of Honour: Chelsea VIC
Remembered: Panel 104, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 3 December 1943, Leading Aircraftman Cumming, a Driver Motor Transport, suffered a heart attack and drowned when swimming in the Ross River at Townsville.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/8/313