FRESHMAN Cairncross, James Dobson

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Cairncross ​

• FORENAME

James Dobson ​

• UNIT

9 (Airborne) Field Company,Royal Engineers ​

• RANK

Corporal ​

• NUMBER

2110314 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

19th November 1942 ​

• AGE

22 ​

• GRAVESITE

Brookwood Memorial, Surrey Panel 5 Column 1 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 12.04.1920 Hawick, Roxburghshire, UK​

son of Robert (1884-1945) and Elizabeth (nee Laidlaw) Cairncross (1906-1967), Hawick, Roxburghshire​

Horsa DP349​

POW and murdered Stavanger, Norway​

body dumped at sea between Usken and Kvits Island ​

Wellogate Cemetery, Hawick, Roxburghshire, UK (Memorial on parents headstone)​