Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Mr and Mrs Horace Cunnington. After being in the service of Viscount Churchill, he entered the motor department of the Great Western Railway Company to learn motor engineering. He afterwards went to the Birmingham and Midland Motor Company where he made excellent progress as a motor mechanic. He enlisted as a motor driver with the Army Service Corps. and embarked at once for France. Never very robust, after two severe winters he continually caught colds and with other complications was invalided home. He died at the 1st Southern General Hospital in Birmingham. His workmates at the Birmingham Midland Motor Co. sent a floral token of respect to be placed on his grave, and one of them writing to his parents said:- “We realize that the example he set was a true and noble one, and I am sure the world is sweeter through his example of true life he led while among us.”