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Colonel Commandant Hanway Robert Cumming, (9 October 1867 – 5 March 1921) was an officer in the British Army.
Cumming fought in the Second Boer War, and in France during the First World War, commanding the 110th Brigade from 16 March 1918 until the Armistice. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in the 1917 Birthday Honours and appointed an Officer in the French Legion of Honour.
During the Irish War of Independence, Cumming was commander of British troops in County Kerry. He was killed at the Clonbanin Ambush, possibly the highest-ranking British officer to be killed in that war.
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Profiles of Western Front generals
Cumming's account of service in France