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

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G. H. Cockell

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1 memorial
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Operation Overlord

The allied campaign in WW2 for the liberation of North West Europe including the Normandy D-Day landings.

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3 memorials
W. O'Brien

W. O'Brien

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1 memorial
Lieutenant Ernest John Dodd

Lieutenant Ernest John Dodd

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
General Sir Hubert Gough, GCMC, KCB, KCVO

General Sir Hubert Gough, GCMC, KCB, KCVO

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1 memorial