Personnel Index - Detail
Name
CAIRNS
First Names
Thomas Robert
Rank
F/Sgt
Service
RAF
Service Number
1051616
Crew Position
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Posting In
2/42
Posting Out
10/42
Cemetery
F/Sgt Cairns flew 15 operations with 49Sqn before being posted to 83Sqn.
F/Sgt Cairns was killed on the 13th May 1943 and is buried in Amersfoort.
Photograph kindly taken by Liz Waller.
Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses
F/S Bourne, F/Sgt T R Cairns and F/S H Plant were all ex-49Sqn.