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In memory of:

Sergeant Hugh Cairns

Military service

Service number: 472168
Age: 21
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division: 46th Battalion
Birth: December 4, 1896 Newcastle-on-Tyne, England
Enlistment: August 2, 1915 Saskatchewan
Death: November 2, 1918 Valenciennes, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: I. A. 8.
Additional information

Son of George H. and Elizabeth D. Cairns, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Brother of Corporal Albert Cairns, 46th battalion, died of wounds on 10 September 1918.

Mr. and Mrs. Cairns attended a civic ceremony at Valenciennes, France on July 25, 1936 for the naming of a street in the city L'avenue Hugh Cairns. It was in memory of their son who earned the Victoria Cross but gave his life in the capture of the city from the Germans.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 378 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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AUBERCHICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY Nord, France

Auberchicourt is a commune mining village in the Department of the Nord, 11.5 kilometres east of Douai on the road to Valenciennes and AUBERCHICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY is one kilometre west of the village on the northside of the road to Erchin, 300 yards away from the Communal Cemetery.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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