Arthur Thomas (Tom) CAIRNS

CAIRNS, Arthur Thomas

Service Number: 3726
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Lance Corporal
Last Unit: 13th Infantry Battalion
Born: Burwood, NSW, 1999
Home Town: Hurlstone Park, Canterbury, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Trainee engineman
Died: Killed in Action, France, 15 August 1916
Cemetery: Serre Road Cemetery No.2 Beaumont Hamel, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board
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World War 1 Service

20 Dec 1915: Involvement Private, 3726, 13th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: ''
20 Dec 1915: Embarked Private, 3726, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suevic, Sydney
15 Aug 1916: Involvement Lance Corporal, 3726, 13th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3726 awm_unit: 13 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-08-15

Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

Arthur Thomas CAIRNS, (Service Number 3726) born 1893 at Burwood, joined the NSWGR as a cleaner (first step on the career path of an engineman) in November 1913, at Eveleigh locomotive depot. He was eleased from duty in August 1915 to enlist in the AIF at Richmond.
He was sent via Egypt to France, where he landed in June 1916. He was appointed Lance Corporal in July but killed in action on 15 August. He was buried in the vicinity of Pozières, but in 1929, in accord with the agreement with the French and Belgian governments to remove all scattered graves, his remains were exhumed and re-buried in Serre Road Cemetery No. 2, near Beaumont Hamel.
His identity disc was recovered at this time and forwarded to his next of kin, his father in Australia

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