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Military service
Service number:
1233
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
June 9, 1888
Death:
May 8, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10
Additional information
Son of Jessie E. Cunningham, of Aylmer (East), Quebec, and Rev. T. E. Cunningham.
Digital gallery of Private Elson Petrie Cunningham
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Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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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 441 of 890. No record of burial. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Honour roll
St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church Great War Honour Roll -
Memorial
St George slaying the dragon - To the glory of God. This Warriors` Chapel was erected in grateful remembrance of those members of St John`s Church serving in the Armed Forces who made the supreme sacrifice for their King and country in order that we might continue to live in that freedom which is, by the grace of God, our rightful heritage. Dedicated in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fifty.
Digital gallery of
Private Elson Petrie Cunningham
Digital gallery of
Private Elson Petrie Cunningham
Digital gallery of
Private Elson Petrie Cunningham
Digital gallery of
Private Elson Petrie Cunningham
Digital gallery of
Private Elson Petrie Cunningham
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 11 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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