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Gunner ALEXANDER CAIRNS

Service Number: 348922
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Field Artillery

3rd Bde.

Date of Death

Died 30 October 1917

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY

VII. F. 13.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Alexander and Julia Cairns.
  • Personal Inscription O FOR A LOOK AT THAT VANISHED FACE A SOUND OF THE VOICE THAT IS STILLED
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Buried or commemorated at

NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1615
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