• Awarded on: October 25, 2006

Corporal Cummings served with the 1st Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, during Operation ARCHER Rotation 1. On July 18, 2006, while engaged in a firefight at the Garmser District Centre, his light armoured vehicle’s main gun jammed. Despite continuous direct and indirect fire from rocket-propelled grenades, small arms and mortar rounds, Corporal Cummings left his vehicle to secure a hand crank from another vehicle to repair the main gun. His actions were instrumental in allowing his team to remedy the misfire and carry on with the firefight. Corporal Cummings’s dedication, resolve, and willingness to put himself in harm’s way for the good of the mission reflect exceptionally well on him as well as on the Canadian Forces.