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Capt. Edward Charles Cunnington

British Army 95th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps

(d.23rd March 1918)

Edward Cunnington was the only child of Captain Benjamin Cunnington of the Wiltshire Regiment and Maud Cunnington. He was educated at Reading, then Cambridge and was studying medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital at the outbreak of war.

He was granted a commission in July 1915 and joined 95th Field Ambulance, serving initially in England, then Egypt, moving to France in March 1916. Edward was killed in action on Sunday 23rd of March 1918 by a bomb exploded while he was tending wounded in a forward dressing station near to the front line.



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