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Private GREGORY CAIRNS

Service Number: 34231
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Scots

16th Bn

Date of Death

Died 18 August 1918

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MENDINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY

X. E. 10.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment transf. to (386179) 144th Coy. Labour Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alexander and Emma Cairns, of Edinburgh; husband of Agnes Spence Smith (formerly Cairns), of 23, Brunswick Rd., Edinburgh.
  • Personal Inscription UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

MENDINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 2442
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