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Military service
Service number:
552264
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Enlistment:
Claresholm, Alberta
Death:
August 26, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. A. II.
Digital gallery of Private John Craigie Cunningham
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Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Crossley to Cyrs. Microform Sequence 25; Volume Number 31829_B016734. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 169. Page 483 of 890. Private Cunningham was initially buried in Pelves Canadian Cemetery located about 1.6 kilometres due South of the village of Pelves. After the Armistice, the bodies of all the soldiers buried there, 39 soldiers from Canada who fell in August and September 1918, were exhumed and re-interred in VIS-EN-ARTOIS BRITISH CEMETERY.
Digital gallery of
Private John Craigie Cunningham
Digital gallery of
Private John Craigie Cunningham
Digital gallery of
Private John Craigie Cunningham
Digital gallery of
Private John Craigie Cunningham
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 392 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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