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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 2611" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Cairns </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Leslie George </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 SAS (D Squadron) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Leutenant </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>164967 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>17th June 1944 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>24 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Bayeux Memorial, France Panel 18 Column 2 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Army Air Corps</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>former Royal Artillery</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born Stirling</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>resided Edinburgh</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of George (1882-1936) and Mrs Agnes Josephine (nee Gardner) Cairns (????-1949)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>husband of Irene Jessie Cairns</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Newstead School, Doune</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Edinburgh University</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>M.A.(Hons)(Edinburgh)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1940 commissioned Ayrshire Yeomanry</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>4th Indian Division, El Alamein</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1943 joined Parachute Regiment</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Op.Gain - aircraft presumed crashed </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>remembered on family grave Snowdon Cemetery, Stirling, Scotland</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/l-cairns.27839/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/27/27839-4712d942346949cc98271d1cfff1f68a.jpg?1591433891" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/l-cairns.27048/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/27/27048-cdbace0b285c244fb5ba7e5615d2ce37.jpg?1591433673" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/l-cairns.27447/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/27/27447-bac28bf9a0b58125e2485374182733c4.jpg?1591433780" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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