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Harold Sherratt Cunningham

In memory of:

Lieutenant Harold Sherratt Cunningham

August 17, 1918

Military Service

Age:

23

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)

Division:

47th Bn.

Additional Information

Born:

February 27, 1895
Nanaimo, British Columbia

Enlistment:

June 17, 1916
New Westminister, British Columbia

Son of Thomas and Maria May Cunningham, of Wakesiah Farm, Nanaimo, British Columbia.

Commemorated on Page 392 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme, France

Grave Reference:

VIA. A. 18.

Location:

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.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Newspaper clipping– 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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    Newspaper clipping – From the Daily Colonist of April 21, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y114uvic#page/n0/mode/1up
  • Newspaper clipping– 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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    Newspaper clipping – 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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  • 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 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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    Circumstances of death registers
    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 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.
  • Grave Marker– Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England, 2008.

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    Grave Marker – Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England, 2008.

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