Box CLX-A-1543

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Accountant certificates (x 7).

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Correspondence and papers relating to Leslie George Cairns, Irene Young's first husband who died in June 1944.

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This is a visitor guide for Old Town Cemetery in Stirling, entitled "Stories in Stone". It contains a list of notable monuments of interest, including the memorial to Lieutenant Leslie Cairns, next to which a handwritten asterisk has been written.

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Four letters from the Imperial War Museum to Irene Young, requesting items to display for their "Forces Sweethearts" exhibition which took place in 1993. Young lent them letters sent to her by Leslie Cairns, and some pages from her souvenir album.

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Typed copy of correspondence between Iain Gordon Brown, and Peter B. Freshwater (Editor, University of Edinburgh Journal) and John R Sutherland (Assistant Editor) concerning L. G. Cairns' entry in the University of Edinburgh Journal's supplement "Roll of Honour 1939-1945".

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Typed copy of emails between Rachel Hosker (then Archives Manager and Deputy Head of Special Collections) and Iain Gordon Brown concerning a student's blog post about Irene Young and L. G. Cairns.

Scope and Contents Letters with envelopes, manuscript, 14 November 1943 to 8 June 1944, from Leslie G. Cairns, while on Parachute Regiment training, Chesterfield, and then on transfer to the SAS Regiment training in Ayrshire, and including a last letter 8 June 1944, their last meeting had been in May 1944.The letters include details of Leslie's parachute training such as "carried weights, swung on beams and parallel bars, jumped ditches [...]" as well as long runs, a ten-mile forced march, and an...

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Files relating to the disappearance and presumed death in action of Lieutenant L. G. Cairns; to subsequent commemoration of L. G. Cairns; and on research into his possible fate and the possible discovery, in Normandy in 2015, of the wreck on the aircraft taking him and his men on their secret mission to East-Central France.

THESE FILES ARE STILL IN USE BY THE DEPOSITOR (CURRENTLY JUST AN A4 PAGE) AND THEREFORE NOT AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION.

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Photocopies, photograph, notes, song.

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Correspondence. From file: 'Cairns Family post-war. Leslie's mother (Agnes Josephine Gardner, MS ChB) and her sisters; Aunts Janie, Edie and Rhoda; Cousin Donald MacLean MB ChB (Edin), FRCGP, FBMA; Cousin Joe Gardner and wife Heather, South Africa.'