Cumming L B Lt 1st Black Watch
LIEUTENANT L. R. CUMMING
1st BATTALION THE BLACK WATCH (ROYAL HIGHLANDERS)
LEWIS ROBERTSON CUMMING was the eldest son of John Fleetwood Cumming, J.P., of Aberlour, Strathspey, by his marriage with Beatrice Gordon Bryson Kynoch.
He came to the School in 1906, and left in 1910. He entered the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in 1911, and was gazetted to his Regiment in 1912, and promoted Lieutenant in May, 1914.
He went to the Front with the First Expeditionary Force in August, 1914, and fought in the Retreat from Mons and the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne. He was Scout Officer of the Regiment, and at the Battle of the Aisne his duties were with the Colonel at Headquarters. Things were not going too well, and many casualties caused the Colonel to go forward. Lieutenant Cumming collected a few men and went with a supply of ammunition to the firing line. He succeeded in getting this distributed, but was killed immediately afterwards, on September 14th, 1914. Age 22.
His Major wrote:-“We have lost a very promising and gallant comrade, who had done splendid service to the Regiment in the very trying time we have had since Mons.”
Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1