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Private HOWARD SHAW CAIRNS

Service Number: 3315566
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 November 1940

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RAYLEIGH CEMETERY

C. of E. Plot. Grave 1146.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Cairns, and of Janetta Ethel Cairns, of Bearsden, Dunbartonshire.
  • Personal Inscription DEARLY LOVED, DEEPLY MOURNED
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