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Military service
Service number:
B/64756
Age:
21
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
January 30, 1923
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 4, 1941
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
June 6, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. C. 3.
Additional information
Son of Ernest Carl and Grace Gordon Cunningham, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Ernest Arnold Cunningham
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Obituary
This obituary of Rifleman Cunningham was clipped from a Toronto paper by Mrs Josie McQuade in 1944. -
Rifleman Cunningham enlisted in the 2nd (Res) Battalion of the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada in September 1941. He joined the 1st Battalion in England in 1942. Rifleman Cunningham was in Able Company and killed on D-Day at Bernières-sur-mer (Juno Beach Nan White sector).
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Grave Marker
This photo of Rfn Cunningham's gravemarker was taken by Padre Craig Cameron of The QOR of C June 6, 2003. -
Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of Ernset Arnold Cunningham
In memory of the students from Western Technical School, Toronto who served during World War II and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Western Technical School
In memory of the students from Western Technical School, Toronto who served during World War II and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
In memory of the students from Western Technical School, Toronto who served during World War II and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star June 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Ernest Arnold Cunningham
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Ernest Arnold Cunningham
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Ernest Arnold Cunningham
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Ernest Arnold Cunningham
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Ernest Arnold Cunningham
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Ernest Arnold Cunningham
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Ernest Arnold Cunningham
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 284 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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