[3] In August 1918, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the citation reading: Lt. Alec Cunningham Reid (formerly R. E.).When engaging a column of infantry at a very low altitude, this officer saw a hostile balloon on the ground.

[6] The Liberals in Warrington did not field a candidate at the 1924 general election, and Reid was returned to the House of Commons for the next five years.

[7] Cunningham-Reid's next chance to return to the Commons came in 1932, when the Conservative member Sir Rennell Rodd resigned from Parliament.

[8] On 28 July 1943, Cunningham-Reid was involved in an exchange of blows in the lobby of the House of Commons with fellow Conservative MP Oliver Locker-Lampson.

[9] Cunningham-Reid's description of the incident was that after a verbal dispute, He [Locker-Lampson] ran whirling his arms around his head and struck me in the chest.

I helped him up and by that time other members had gotten between usThe following day, both MPs made a formal apology in the House of Commons.

[11] The incident became front-page news in Britain,[12] 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".

[4][16] 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.