SAS Cairns, Leslie George

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Cairns ​

• FORENAME

Leslie George ​

• UNIT

1 SAS (D Squadron) ​

• RANK

Leutenant ​

• NUMBER

164967 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

17th June 1944 ​

• AGE

24 ​

• GRAVESITE

Bayeux Memorial, France Panel 18 Column 2 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Army Air Corps​

former Royal Artillery​

born Stirling​

resided Edinburgh​

son of George (1882-1936) and Mrs Agnes Josephine (nee Gardner) Cairns (????-1949)​

husband of Irene Jessie Cairns​

educated Newstead School, Doune​

educated Edinburgh University​

M.A.(Hons)(Edinburgh)​

1940 commissioned Ayrshire Yeomanry​

4th Indian Division, El Alamein​

1943 joined Parachute Regiment​

Op.Gain - aircraft presumed crashed ​

remembered on family grave Snowdon Cemetery, Stirling, Scotland​

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