Military service
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Son of Thomas and Maria May Cunningham, of Wakesiah Farm, Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Harold Sherratt Cunningham
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Sherratt Cunningham
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Sherratt Cunningham
Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England, 2008.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Sherratt Cunningham
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 463 of 890. Lieutenant Cunningham was originally buried in Dury Hospital Military Cemetery, under the wall of the Asylum near the West side of the Amiens-Dury road. At some point after 1925 his body and those of 443 other soldiers buried at this cemetery were exhumed and re-interred in Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Sherratt Cunningham
From the Daily Colonist of April 21, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y114uvic#page/n0/mode/1up
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Harold Sherratt Cunningham
From the Daily Colonist of August 23, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y223uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
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Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England, 2008.
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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 463 of 890. Lieutenant Cunningham was originally buried in Dury Hospital Military Cemetery, under the wall of the Asylum near the West side of the Amiens-Dury road. At some point after 1925 his body and those of 443 other soldiers buried at this cemetery were exhumed and re-interred in Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery.
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From the Daily Colonist of April 21, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y114uvic#page/n0/mode/1up
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From the Daily Colonist of August 23, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y223uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
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Page 392 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of Amiens on the straight main road to St Quentin. The Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery is about 2 kilometres north of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.
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