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Cairns, William Louis Pretsell

Date of birth:
1922 (Bothwell/South Lanarkshire, Scotland)
Date of death:
September 21st, 1944 (Megen/North-Brabant, Netherlands)
Buried on:
Canadian War Cemetery Groesbeek
Plot: XXII. Row: E. Grave: 9.
Service number:
1564620
Nationality:
British

Biography

Flight Sergeant (Air Bomber)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
190 Sdqn.

Takeoff RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire at 12:15 Short Stirling Mk IV LJ823 for a re-supply operation in support of Market Garden.
Over Gelderland, hit by Flak & Luftwaffe fighters and crashed on the southern bank (Diedense Uiterdijk) of the Maas river.

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