Manitoban WWI Soldier Identified After a Century in Unknown Grave

Corporal William Benjamin Cunningham, killed at the Battle of Passchendaele, will receive a rededicated headstone in Belgium.

Cpl. William Benjamin Cunningham, a 21-year-old from Manitoba, was killed in action during the Battle of Passchendaele in October 1917.
His remains, initially unidentified, were buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium, in 1920.
The Canadian Armed Forces confirmed Cunningham's identity through extensive historical research and archival records.
Cunningham's family has been notified, and a headstone rededication ceremony will be held at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's cemetery.
The casualty identification program has successfully identified 36 Canadians' remains, including Cunningham's, since its inception in 2007.