1 Personnel Dispatch Centre, RAF Pershore, 437 Sqn Dakota Mk III KG-653 was one of 15 transports en-route to India in very poor weather with dark low clouds, heavy rain, thunder and lightning when it was attacked by fighters over Germany.
The fighters tried to force it down but it went into a dive, suffered structural failure pulling out and crashed four miles south-west of Neuleiningen, Germany.
Killed includes Cumming:Cpl James Ernest Allen RCAF R/116919 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 2. K. 23.LAC Lawrence Irwin Beach RCAF R/53101 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.Sergeant George Beckoff RAAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.LAC Oliver Eugene Debs Bergen RCAF R/198657 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 2. K. 22.LAC Robert Thomas Burden RCAF R/163109 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.Cpl William Howard Campbell RCAF R/72053 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.LAC Joseph Adelard Real Chevrier RCAF R/54834 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. A. 18-19.LAC Joseph Robert Marcel Armand Couturier RCAF R/174379 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.LAC Frederick Robert Leigh Gates RCAF R/150018 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. A. 18-19.LAC Maxwell James Foch Good RCAF R/169520 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 19. A. 18-19.Sergeant Walter Francis Hughes RCAF R/58248 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.Cpl Howard John Hunter RCAF R/159360 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 2. K. 25.F/Lt Ralph Korer RAF pilot KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.LAC Fred Larson Kristensen RCAF R/191794 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.LAC William John Scott Lundy RCAF R/194702 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.LAC Donald John MacDonald RCAF R/176956 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.Cpl Lorne Hamilton Moreau RCAF P/10407 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.AC1 John Dunlop McVie RCAF R/258359 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.Cpl Frederick William Sargeant RCAF R/212995 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.LAC John Cyril Sutherland RCAF R/72988 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery grave 2. K. 24.Pilot Officer Lionel Alfred Veary RAF KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.LAC Henry Studwell Watson RCAF R/270640 KIA Rheinberg War Cemetery Coll. grave 20. A. 1-9.
Cpl Cumming was originally buried at Neuleiningen Cemetery, near the crash site, exhumed in 1948 and reburied at the Rheinberg War Cemetery