Gilbert McKenzie Cunnington

Rank:

Lieutenant

Regimental number:

9397

Unit at enlistment:

9th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Hastings

Birth city:

Belleville, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

174 Jameson Avenue, Toronto, Ontario

Next of kin address:

174 Jameson Avenue, Toronto, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Surveyor

Employer:

Ontario Electric Commission

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Accident/Illness

BX May 28, 1915

Returned From Front

Private Gilbert McKenzie Cunnington, who enlisted with the Queen’s Own at Toronto and later fought with the British forces at Armentieres and St. Eloi, has returned to his home here. He was in the trenches and suffered very severely from frost bite, being invalided out. He is employed in the hydraulic department of the Ontario Electric Commission, which is working on surveys of the Grand River. He learned to respect the German snipers but says that most of the fighting was done with hand grenades at that time.