Brigadier Ben Cunningham
Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
9th Infantry Brigade

I was always damned proud of my men. Never once did I hear of an officer or any man wanting to call it quits.

(Quoted in Kingston Whig-Standard, 6 Jun 1980, 7)

Born on 22 March 1908 in Kingston, Ontario, Douglas Gordon (Ben) Cunningham graduated from RMC in 1929 and studied law at Osgoode Hall. In addition to being lawyer and city alderman in Kingston, he was adjutant with the Princess of Wales’ Own Regiment, but he vacated all these roles to go overseas in 1940. He was appointed aide-de-camp to Major General Victor Odlum of the 2nd Division before serving as brigade major of the 4th Infantry Brigade during the Dieppe Raid of 19 August 1942.

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