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Serjeant John Cairns
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Serjeant John Cairns Veteran

Birth
Ballygawley, County Sligo, Ireland
Death
31 Oct 1914 (aged 23)
Monument
Ploegsteert, Arrondissement de Mouscron, Hainaut, Belgium Add to Map
Plot
Panel 5.
Memorial ID
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Service No: 3515
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 2nd Bn.

Son of Thomas and Phoebe Cairns, of Ballygawley, Co. Tyrone.
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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
CAIRNS, JOHN, Sergeant, No. 3515, 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, son of the late Thomas Cairns, Gunner, Mid-Ulster Artillery, by his wife, Phoebe (Ballygawley, co. Tyrone), daughter of James Montgomery, of Feddan, Ballygawley, co. Tyrone; b. Ballygawley, co. Tyrone, 12 May, 1891; educated National School there; enlisted originally in 1909, was called up on mobilisation, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Messines 31 Oct. following; unmarried. His brother, Private William Cairns, No. 17584, 9th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, is now (1916) on Active Service.
Service No: 3515
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 2nd Bn.

Son of Thomas and Phoebe Cairns, of Ballygawley, Co. Tyrone.
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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
CAIRNS, JOHN, Sergeant, No. 3515, 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, son of the late Thomas Cairns, Gunner, Mid-Ulster Artillery, by his wife, Phoebe (Ballygawley, co. Tyrone), daughter of James Montgomery, of Feddan, Ballygawley, co. Tyrone; b. Ballygawley, co. Tyrone, 12 May, 1891; educated National School there; enlisted originally in 1909, was called up on mobilisation, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Messines 31 Oct. following; unmarried. His brother, Private William Cairns, No. 17584, 9th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, is now (1916) on Active Service.


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