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Lance Corporal JOHN JAMES CAIRNS

Service Number: 14416962
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Irish Fusiliers

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 October 1944

Age 18 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SANTERNO VALLEY WAR CEMETERY

I, L, 16.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Mary Cairns, of Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland.
  • Personal Inscription HE LIVED AND DIED, FOR OTHERS; BE THAT HIS FAME
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Buried or commemorated at

SANTERNO VALLEY WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 287
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