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Corporal JOHN CAIRNS

Service Number: 40179
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Scots Fusiliers

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 13 November 1916

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.1

I. E. 11.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Annie Turnbull Cairns, of Holydean, Bowden, St. Boswells; husband of Jessie Cairns, of Monksford, Newtown st Boswells. Roxburghshire.
  • Personal Inscription DEARLY LOVED HUSBAND OF JESSIE VICTORIA NOBLE
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Buried or commemorated at

SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.1
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 2434
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