Died on the first day of the advance through the Abruzzi Hills to the town of Volturara and then along the Catola River toward San Marco. Pte. Cubbitt was driving the R.A.P. jeep ambulance and it ran over a Teller mine, killing Cubbitt, two wounded Highlander it was carrying, Chester Boughton and Bob Courriere, and Dennis Quinn who died of wound the next day.