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Bombardier ALEXANDER WILSON CAIRENS

Service Number: 444
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South African Heavy Artillery

72nd Regt. Siege Bty.

Date of Death

Died 08 June 1916

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

V. E. 8A.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of Robert Cairens, of Berwick-on-Tweed; husband of Edith Cairens, of Cape Town.
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