View source for Shortman Arthur William Cairns Lt & QM 94763

{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Shortman Arthur William Cairns
|Army number=94763
|Rank=Lt QM
|Decorations=Territorial Efficiency Decoration and Clasp 20/7/1954.
|Date of birth=1895, Camberwell.
|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, Posted 9th Bn DLI.  Embodied 24/8/1939, Posted 12th Bn DLI 4/9/1939. Trf Black Watch 20/12/1939. Posted 1 TS 1/2/1940. B.E.F.  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
|Task or role=Cdr Dieppe Terminal Camp BAOR.
|Joined Brigade=4/9/1939
|Promotions=W/S Captain & QM 1/11/42, Major (QM) 3/9/1951
|Died/Killed in action=Death registered September 1963, Surrey.
|Home address=456, Pinner Road, North Harrow, Middlesex,  c/o TA, Perth.  Married 1957 to Theresa M Edwards.
|Source table=1TS
}}

Some information sources indicate that, while he served with the 1 TS in the B.E.F. he was captured as a Prisoner of War.  However, this cannot be independently verified and he does not appear in the IWM PoW Register.