Sergeant Ronald Everett Cunnings

Royal Canadian Air Force

Major, Saskatchewan

Died: Feb 29, 1944

Commemorated at Chester (Blacon) Cemetery, United Kingdom

SGT. R. E. CUNNINGS of Major, was killed in action on February 29 while flying with the R.C.A.F. from an English base, and was buried near Chester, Cheshire, England, on March 7.

Ronald Everett Cunnings is the first Major man to pay the supreme sacrifice in this war, as his father, W. J. Cunnings, did in the last war. His father was a pioneer of the Major district, and served in the South African War, and the First Great War till he was killed after Vimy Ridge had been won from the Germans.