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Roy Winfield Cairns

In memory of:

Pilot Officer Roy Winfield Cairns

April 4, 1943

Military Service


Service Number:

J/17457

Age:

23

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

238 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

Additional Information


Son of Winfield and Annie A. Cairns, of Orillia, Ontario, Canada.

Commemorated on Page 142 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
Egypt

Grave Reference:

Column 271.

Location:

Alamein is a village which is bypassed by the main coast road approximately 130 kilometres west of Alexandria on the way to Mersa Matruh. The first Commission road direction sign is located just beyond the Alamein police checkpoint and all cemetery visitors should turn off from the main road onto the old coast road, which is parallel to the former. The cemetery and the ALAMEIN MEMORIAL both lie beyond the ridge. Road direction signs are in place approximately 25 metres before the low metal gates and stone wing walls which are situated centrally at the road edge at the head of the access path which leads down through the memorial building and into the cemetery. The Cross of Sacrifice feature may be seen from the road.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– Pilot Officer Roy Winfield Cairns is also commemorated on the WWII Memorial in Orillia, ON … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Pilot Officer Roy Winfield Cairns is also commemorated on the WWII Memorial in Orillia, ON … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Grave marker– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram May 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Roy Winfield Cairns– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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