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Captain ANDREW CAIRNS

Service Number: 167512
Regiment & Unit/Ship

York and Lancaster Regiment

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 February 1942

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COLINTON PARISH CHURCHYARD, SOUTHERN EXTENSION

Sec. N. Grave 27.

United Kingdom

Headstone CH. Chipped halfway down the front of the stone.

Photographer: Audrey Anderson

Headstone with chip

Photographer: Audrey Anderson

  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly Pipe-Major, 2nd Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Andrew Love Cairns and Margaret Cairns; husband of Agnes Steele Cairns (nee Webster), of Juniper Green, Edinburgh.
  • Personal Inscription ALSO HIS WIFE AGNES 8TH NOVEMBER 1955 OF 47
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Buried or commemorated at

COLINTON PARISH CHURCHYARD, SOUTHERN EXTENSION
Edinburgh United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 12
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