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Ernest Arnold Cunningham

In memory of:

Rifleman Ernest Arnold Cunningham

June 6, 1944

Military Service

Service Number:

B/64756

Age:

21

Force:

Army

Unit:

Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.

Additional Information

Born:

January 30, 1923
Toronto, Ontario

Enlistment:

September 4, 1941
Toronto, Ontario

Son of Ernest Carl and Grace Gordon Cunningham, of Toronto, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 284 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Calvados, France

Grave Reference:

V. C. 3.

Location:

Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Reviers, on the Creully-Tailleville-Ouistreham road (D.35). Reviers is a village and commune in the Department of the Calvados. It is located 15 kilometres north-west of Caen and 18 kilometres east of Bayeux and 3.5 kilometres south of Courseulles, a village on the sea coast. The village of Beny-sur-Mer is some 2 kilometres south-east of the cemetery. The bus service between Caen and Arromanches (via Reviers and Ver-sur-Mer) passes the cemetery.

It was on the coast just to the north that the 3rd Canadian Division landed on 6th June 1944; on that day, 335 officers and men of that division were killed in action or died of wounds. In this cemetery are the graves of Canadians who gave their lives in the landings in Normandy and in the earlier stages of the subsequent campaign. Canadians who died during the final stages of the fighting in Normandy are buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery.

There are a total of 2,048 burials in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery. There is also one special memorial erected to a soldier of the Canadian Infantry Corps who is known to have been buried in this cemetery, but the exact site of whose grave could not be located.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Star June 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star June 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Ernest Arnold Cunningham– 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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    Photo of Ernest Arnold Cunningham
    Photo of Ernest Arnold Cunningham – 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).
  • Obituary– This obituary of Rifleman Cunningham was clipped from a Toronto paper by Mrs Josie McQuade in 1944.

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    Obituary – This obituary of Rifleman Cunningham was clipped from a Toronto paper by Mrs Josie McQuade in 1944.
  • Grave Marker– This photo of Rfn Cunningham's gravemarker was taken by Padre Craig Cameron of The QOR of C June 6, 2003.

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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)

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    Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
    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.

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    Photo of Ernset Arnold Cunningham
    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.

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    Western Technical School
    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.

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    Memorial
    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.

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