Lieutenant Stanley Ewart Cairns

Army Number : n/a (formerly Private 1883 Honourable Artillery Company)

Battalion : 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Awards : M.C. (Military Cross)

Son of Robert George and Annie Cairns, of Nottingham. Husband of Gertrude M. Elborne (formerly Cairns), of “The Gables,” Woodthorpe Drive, Mapperley Plains, Nottingham. He was educated at Nottingham High School and Huntingdon Grammar School, Huntingdonshire. He was a chartered accountant prior to enlisting 5th September 1914 at Nottingham. Went to France 23rd January 1915. He gained a commission into the 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 8th January 1916 and was killed in action, 30th September 1918, aged 35, whilst in the line north of Bellenglise, France. He was awarded the Military Cros London Gazette Date 1st January 1919.

Buried : La Baraque British Cemetery, Bellenglise, France. Row A. Grave 23.

Second Lieutenant William Miles Smalley is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Mapperley War Memorial, Nottingham.
Nottingham Central Methodist Mission (Albert Hall) War Memorial.
Nottingham University OTC War Memorial, Nottingham.
High Pavement Grammar School Roll of Honour, (Nottinghamshire Archives), Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.