Douglas Laurie Cummings (1897 - 1972)

Born 1897 in Hammersmith, London, England

Died 1972 at about age 75 in Western Australia

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Constable Douglas Cummings, 1928 - photo State Library of WA

Biography

Douglas Cummings worked in the Traffic Branch as a policeman, draftsman, signwriter, showcard, black-and-white, water colour and oil-paint artist. He trained new recruits in measuring and drawing of plans for traffic accidents. Cummings joined the West Australian Police in 1922 and retired in 1957.
Cummings designed the Walsh-Pitman Memorial. His pen and ink drawings of Western Australian homesteads is published as Historical Homesteads Series.

Letter Burnside and Glenisla.

Reply Burnside and Glenisla.

Policeman-artist who drew old homesteads and historic buildings; ^[1] born London; British WWII; worked as Sergeant in Traffic Department in James Street.

Cummings Douglas L Male | Klippel Helen V Female | Fremantle | 247 | 1921

KC00041223 Karrakatta Cremation

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• Douglas Laurie Cummings b. 1897

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Copy of sketch of Lockeville at Wonnerup WA. 1939 (compare sketch with newspaper)

10: Lockeville, Wonnerup. ^[2] Locke brothers - Mordaunt Locke - Percy Reynolds