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Cunningham-Reid was born in [[Wayland, Norfolk]],<ref name="the-aerodrome" /> the son of the Reverend Arthur Morse Reid and his wife Agnes Celina Flower (1861–1941), a sister of [[Archibald Dennis Flower]].<ref name="thepeerage.com">{{cite web |url=http://thepeerage.com/p2942.htm#i29412|title=Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |work=ThePeerage.com |access-date=21 November 2009}}</ref>
He joined the [[Royal Engineers]] during the [[World War I|First World War]] and was commissioned as a [[
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| Lt. Alec Cunningham Reid (formerly R. E.).<br />When engaging a column of infantry at a very low altitude, this officer saw a hostile balloon on the ground. This he attacked and burnt. On the two following days he shot down two aeroplanes, and a few days later destroyed a third.
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}}</ref> Cunningham-Reid's description of the incident was that after a verbal dispute,
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}}</ref> On 30 July Cunningham-Reid made a personal statement in which he explained to the House that the matter had arisen after Locker-Lampson had accused him of leaving London during [[
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|quote=A fist fight between two members of commons vied with the war news for space on the front pages of London's newspapers today
}}</ref> and was reported in several major American newspapers — including the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', which ran the story under the headline "England Grins as Members of Commons Trade Punches".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/418512161.html?dids=418512161:418512161&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jul+29%2C+1943&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=England+Grins+as+Members+of+Commons+Trade+Punches&pqatl=google|title=England Grins as Members of Commons Trade Punches|newspaper=
== Personal life ==
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}}</ref> had two children: Michael Duncan Alec Cunningham-Reid (1928–2014)<ref>http://peeragenews.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/michael-duncan-alec-cunningham-reid.html</ref> and Noel Robert Cunningham-Reid (1930–2017).<ref name="thepeerage.com" /><ref>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/peerage-news/-N3IHXP-TYw</ref> On their honeymoon, she insisted that they share her wealth because "no decent woman likes to have a man live with her in charity", but when the couple divorced in 1940, he sued for half of her $400,000 annual income.<ref name="time-mag-1943-08-09">{{cite news
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| title = Foreign News: Old Boys
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