Alexander William CUSSENS

Alexander William CUSSANS. M.B.E. Formerly Sergeant 15/12699 with 9th 12th and 15th , Royal Irish
Rifles in WW1
Born 11 January 1898 at West Ham, Essex to Arthur James and Sarah Jane McConnell.
1901 with his parents and siblings at 28 Rialto Street, Ushers Quay, Dublin Ireland.
1911 with his parents at 10 Reuben Street, same area as 1901. He later resided a 2 Mountainview Street, Belfast.
12 February 1923 received a gunshot wound to right leg
Belfast Gazette dated 8 June 1951
The KING has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of His Majesty's
Birthday, to give orders for the following appointments. to the Most Excellent Order of the British
Empire. To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Alexander William Cussans, Esq., 121 Crumlin Road, Belfast

Supplement to London Gazette dated 7 June 1951.
The KING has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of His Majesty's
Birthday, to give orders for the following promotion in, and appointments to, the Most
Excellent Order of the British Empire :
To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Alexander William CUSSANS, Esq., Adjutant, Ulster Special Constabulary

Burial record (Belfast Burials web site) Last place of residence 1 Grahamsbridge Road, Dundonald., died 21st September 1972 aged 75 years. Laid to rest in Roselawn Cemetery, Belfast, Northern Ireland 19 April 1973. His wife Jane is in the same grave. Plot T Grave 3095

Photograph credited to a family tree on ancestry.