He travelled to Britain as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force and served in France during World War II.

[1] At the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, he was a member of the British ice hockey team which won the bronze medal.

He then appeared at the 1926 Ice Hockey European Championship and, two years later, finished fourth with the British team in the 1928 Olympic tournament in St. Moritz.

Cuthbert rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the British Army, but retired from his military career in 1931 and travelled to the United States, where he married the Chicago soap heiress Beatrice Kirk in 1934.

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