Film footage of a soldier receiving his Victoria Cross from King George V in 1917 has been restored ahead of Remembrance Day.
The film was restored after a relative of Pte Cunningham donated the footage to the York Army Museum.Pte Cunningham was from a Hull travelling family and enlisted in the East Yorkshire Regiment at the age of 17 when World War One began in 1914. "Pte Cunningham went with a bombing section up a communication trench where much opposition was met and all the rest of the section were either killed or wounded," the dispatch said.
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