FOR KING AND COUNTRY.
PRIVATE JOHN CAIRNS. Private John Cairns (killed in action in France on July G) was the eon cf Mrs M. Cairns, 15, Cranford Street, St Albans, and was twenty-nine years of age. He was a native of Oamaru, where he was educated, and previous I
to enlistment with the Fourteenth Re-inforci-ments was employed as a surveyor's rs-s-stanf in Hie Auckland province. lie : ; oivod on the. Gnliipoli Peninsula, for a short period immediately preceding the evacuation, and since then toek rarr in a considerable amount of fighting in France.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12083, 11 August 1917, Page 9
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