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Lieutenant Colonel JOHN ELLIOT CAIRNES

Service Number: 31902
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.

Cdg. 50th

Date of Death

Died 22 March 1943

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ENFIDAVILLE WAR CEMETERY

V. E. 17.

Tunisia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frederick E. Cairnes and of Lucy Barbara Cairnes (nee Croft); husband of June Cairnes (nee Jameson), of Howth, Co. Dublin, Irish Republic.
  • Personal Inscription ALL YOU HAD HOPED FOR, ALL YOU HAD, YOU GAVE TO SAVE MANKIND
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Buried or commemorated at

ENFIDAVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 1551
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