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Personnel Entry
Name Shortman Arthur William Cairns
Army number 94763
Rank Lt QM
Decorations
Date of birth 1896
Age
Unit Served in the ranks; Queen's Westminster Rifles - 1910-12, Westminster Dragoons 1912-14, RASC 1916. Durham Light Infantry - Commissioned as Lt & QM 1/7/39, Embodied 24/8/1939, Posted ? 12th Bn DLI 4/9/1939, Trf Black Watch 20/12/1939, Posted 1 TS 1/2/1940, Group HQ Dieppe BAOR, Captain QM Short Service Commission, Trf Royal Pioneer Corps 1/3/1949, Relinquished Commission as Hon Major 13/3/1954
Company/Battery HQ Coy
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Cdr Dieppe Terminal Camp BAOR
Joined Brigade
Promotions W/S Captain & QM 1/11/42, Major 3/9/1951
Wounded
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action
Home address 456, Pinner Road, North Harrow, Middlesex, c/o TA, Perth
Source table 1TS
