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Tpr. Adam Jamieson Cairns

British Army Royal Scots Greys

from:St. Anns Schoolhouse, Blackfriars Street, Edinburgh

Adam Cairns enlisted into 52nd (Lowland) Divisional Royal Army Service Corps Territorial Army on 14th of April 1936. He was posted to Anti-Aircraft on 1st November 1938 and discharged from Territorial Army on 16th of January 1939 having enlisted into the Regular Army as a Trooper of the Calvary of the Line.

He was posted to Palestine with The Royal Scots Greys. on 28th September 1939 he was posted to 7th Dragoon Guards, Royal Armoured Corps. He transferred to Royal Armoured Corps and posted to British Forces Greece on 28th of February 1941. Adam was captured on 28th of April 1941 and sent to POW camp in Corinthia, Greece, then transferred to Stalag XVIIIB on 28th of July 1941. He was then transferred to Stalag XVIIIA and was sent to various work camps until 1945 when he was liberated.



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