Person    | Male  Born 12/12/1913  Died 19/3/1944

Lieutenant George Albert Cairns, VC

Categories: Armed Forces

War dead, WW2 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW2.

Victoria Cross. Somerset Light Infantry attached 1bn the South Staffordshire Regiment. Wikipedia, our Picture source, tells his story.

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Lieutenant George Albert Cairns, VC

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Chindits

Unless we missed it, Cairns' name is not included in the Green Park Memorial ...

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Wandsworth VCs and GCs

In commemoration of those recipients of the George Cross or Victoria Cross wh...

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