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Thomas Arthur Raymond Cairns / Ernest Raymond Puttock (1923-2000)
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Born Ernest Raymond Puttock in Ripley, Surrey
Other May 27 births:
1911: Vincent Price was born in St Louis, Missouri, USA
1922: Christopher Lee was born in Belgravia, London
1923: Henry Alfred Kissinger was born in Fuerth, Germany;
6ft 3ins at tallest.
Theresa Edith Stonard (nee Cairns) was working in service in Pyrford, Surrey, at the time of TARC's birth. She said that her sister, Rose, and her mother ran a fruit barrow around Ripley. They came across Lucy Puttock. It was said that TARC was delivered to the Cairns family by motorcycle. However, Pat / Theresa, Rose's daughter, said that Lucy Puttock regularly came to 4 Smallholdings to assist Mrs Cairns, who had failing eyesight.
Before Lucy's marriage during the SWW, it is believed that she knew one of the Erricker brothers (of whom there were 4 in Dunsfold), Alan Payne (later to own a knitwear factory in Godalming) and Archie Sparks. In the light of subsequent DNA evidence, she clearly also knew Eric Horatio Boxall, who had lost an older brother in the FWW. She named their son Ernest Raymond (Puttock) - probably after the FWW author, who wrote so movingly about life in the trenches.
1923/09/16 Baptised Thomas Arthur Raymond Cairns at St Mary's Church, Ripley, Surrey, with annotation 'Legally Adopted'.
1923/??/?? of 4 Smallholdings, Papercourt Lane, Ripley, Surrey
192?/??/?? Survived meningitis
1928-1932 Educated Ripley C. of E. Primary School. Young Miss Dedman and Old Miss Clay
1931/??/??
1932/33 of 10 North Way, Guildford. Educated at Stoughton Mixed School and Northmead School, Stoughton, Guildford.
1934/??/?? Guildford Education Committee
Stoughton Boys School Report for Term ending July 1934 Name: Thomas Cairns Class: III Number in Class: 46 Position in Class: 26 Maximum Examination Remarks Reading 20 11 Writing 10 8 Spelling 20 15 English 20 12 Composition 20 12 Arithmetic 70 38 Geometry - - Drawing 20 14 Is very much improved Geography 20 11 and with hard work should History 20 9 pull up still more Science 20 5 Team Mark - - Total 240 135 Times Absent - Times Late - Class Teacher: F. E. Ramsay Head Teacher: T. E. Vanner 1935/36 of 33 Ophir Road, North End, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Educated at Northern Parade School.
193? of 10 North Way, Guildford.
1937/Eas. Form 3A Northmead Senior Boys' School, Guildford
1937/Sum 1st Form, 1st Year, Shakespeare House,
Guildford Junior Technical School on its original site on the road island in Park Street at its junction with High Street. This is now the south-western corner of the Guildford railway station one-way system. 5ft 10.5ins, 9 st 7 lbs. 1937/Aut 2nd Form, 1st Year, Shakespeare House, Guildford Junior Technical School
6ft 0.5ins, 10 st 5 lbs 1938/Spr. 3rd Form, 1st Year, Shakespeare House, Guildford Junior Technical School
6ft 1.25ins, 10 st 8 lbs 1938/Sum. 4th Form, 2nd Year, Shakespeare House, Guildford Junior Technical School
6ft 1.5ins, 156 lbs = 11st 2 lbs 1938/Aut. 5th Form, 2nd Year, Shakespeare House, Guildford Junior Technical School
6ft 2ins, 11 st 5 lbs 1939/Spr. 6th Form, 2nd Year, Shakespeare House, Guildford Junior Technical School
6ft 2.625ins, 11 st 7lbs No. of boys in Form: 15 Position in Form: 4 Possible Attendance: 124 Actual Attendance: 124 English: 41/50 Position: 2 Excellent Mathematics: 38/50 Position: 6 Science: 35/50 Position: 7 Drawing: 36/50 Position: 6 Metalwork: 41/50 Position: 3 Excellent Woodwork: 36/50 Position: 9 Physical Exercises: 42/50 Position: 3 Excellent Total No. of Marks gained 269 = 76.8% No. of Marks gained for House: 8 Conduct: Excellent L.R. Davison, Headmaster Next Term commences Mon 17th Apr 1939 ends Fri 21st July 1939 1939/03 Aircraft fitter at Hawkers (Kingston)
1939/??/?? Aircraft worker, born 27 May 1923, of 10 Northway, Guildford, Surrey
1939 Aircraft fitter of Hawkers (Kingston), of 15 Thorndon Gardens, Stoneleigh, Ewell, Surrey
1940-42 Airframe Engineer/Fitter at Hawkers Ltd, Slough Trading Estate of 123 Stoke Road, Slough, Buckinghamshire
1943/09/27 Joined Fleet Air Arm as FX 622763 at Chatham, Kent. 6ft 2.75ins
1943/09/27 Aircraft Fitter of HMS Pembroke (Chatham, Kent)
1943/09/27 Entered direct as Air Fitter
1943/10/13 Aircraft Fitter of HMS Gosling (Hednesford, Staffordshire)
1943/11/20 (Photograph)
1943/12/11 49% pass on 100 yds rifle range, & Grenade at HMS Gosling (Hednesford)
1943/12/22 Aircraft Fitter of HMS Daedalus (Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire)
1943/12/31 Very Good character, under training
1944/01/13 Aircraft Fitter of HMS Daedalus (Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire)
1944/04/01 Aircraft Fitter of HMS Gosling (Hednesford, Staffordshire)
1944/07/11 Rated Air Fitter (A)
1944/07/14 Aircraft Fitter (A) of HMS Daedalus III (Lee-on-Solent?)
1944/08/02 Aircraft Fitter (A) of HMS Kestrel (Worthy Down, Hampshire)
1944/12/31 Very good character, Satisfactory efficiency
1945/??/?? (Of Bush Barn, Berkshire - just south-east of Pusey)
1945/08/13 Aircraft Fitter (A) of HMS Gosling (Hednesford, Staffordshire)
1945/08/24 Aircraft Fitter (A) of HMS Holm Sound
Picked up ship at South Shields, UK ->Aden (where they picked up 12 fishing vessels and 2 ocean-going fishing vessels for escort to Cochin(?)) ->Cocos Isles ->Fremantle, Perth, Australia (where he stayed with Mr & Mrs Mills of Andlebury(?), nr Fremantle) -> UK 1945/08/24 Employed on non-technical duties on HMS Holm Sound until 1946/04/26
1945/12/31 Very good character, Satisfactory efficiency
1946/01/26 Crossing the Equator
This is to certify that -
Thomas Cairns
has this day entered the Domain
of His Britannic Majesty's Ship
Holm Sound, & has been
tested & found worthy to become
one of our loyal subjects -
We declare that all whom he
may meet shall treat him with
proper respect & it is Our Royal
Pleasure to confer on him the
Freedom of the Seas & exempt
him from further homage &
should he fall overboard, all sharks
dolphins & whales are to abstain
from maltreating his person
Given under our hand at our
Court on His Britannic Majesty's
Ship Holm Sound, the 26th day of
January 1946 on the Equator
& in longitude 85deg 15'E
1946/04/26 Still on HMS Holm Sound
1946/04/27 Aircraft Fitter (A) of HMS Daedalus (Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire)
1946/05/22 Aircraft Fitter (A) of HMS Merganser
1946/08/19 Aircraft Fitter (A) of HMS Vulture (St Merryn, Cornwall)
1946/08/30 of 10 Northway, Stoughton, Guildford, Surrey - National Registration Identity Card (NRIC)
1946/10/23 Demobbed (Class A release) as DMO 6344694 Very good character, Satisfactory efficiency
1946/??/?? Considered an interview to work at Dunsfold Airdrome (coincidentally very near to where his natural mother was born.) However, night shifts were not an attraction.
1946/11/13 Aircraft Fitter, at Hawkers Ltd, Slough Trading Estate of 125 Stoke Road, Slough, Buckinghamshire
1947/??/?? Aircraft Fitter, Imperial Airways -> British South American Airways (Langley Airfield), of 125 Stoke Road, Slough, Buckinghamshire. This title was held to be a certified airframe engineer by BSAA and the RAF, but as a combined Airframe engineer and engine fitter by BOAC
194?/??/?? Overhauled aircraft from Berlin airlift
19??/??/?? Aircraft Fitter, British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) of 125 Stoke Road Slough, Buckinghamshire
19??/??/?? Aircraft Fitter (Engine shop), BOAC, of 125 Stoke Road, Slough, Buckinghamshire
1950/12/02 Engaged (from receipt for engagement ring from Hones, 179-181 King Steet, Hammersmith - probably on way back from a QPR Football match??)
1951/??/??
1951/07/07 Wedding Reception in the James Elliman Drill Hall, on the corner of Wellington Street and Chandos Street. Best Man was Pete Lane, from BSAA and BOAC. Dink and best man drove them to Reading station to pick up TARC's motorcycle, which he had left earlier. The idea was that TARC would drive down, while OCB would go down by train, meeting up again at the caravan park. However, OCB had missed the GWR train and had to catch a connecting train to Basingstoke to try to pick up the alternative Southern Railway train.
1951/07/16 Aircraft Fitter (Engine Shop), BOAC, of 18 Northern Road, Manor Park, Slough, Buckinghamshire - NRIC
1952/01/?? Worked on Princess Elizabeth's plane, which subsequently flew to Kenya, when she became Queen
1952/04/07 of 127 Stoke Road, Slough, Buckinghamshire
1953/01/28 Aircraft Engine Fitter (BOAC), of 127 Stoke Road, Slough, Bucks.
1954/08/01 Aircraft Engine Fitter (BOAC), of 127 Stoke Road, Slough, Bucks.
19??/??/?? Production Engineer, (Plant and Maintenance), BOAC, ibid
196?/??/?? Production Engineer, (MT=Motorised Transport), BOAC, ibid
1961/??/??
1967/??/?? Production Engineer, British Airways, ibid
1967/03/10 Visiting the Passport Office, London
1971/??/??
1981/??/??
1981/12/31 Retired, with 33 years service to BOAC/British Airways
1997/07/07 Moved to 37 School Road, Tilehurst, Berkshire
1998/08/11 Will
THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me THOMAS ARTHUR
RAYMOND CAIRNS of 37 School Road Tilehurst Reading Berkshire
1. I HEREBY REVOKE all former Wills and testamentary
dispositions made by me
2. I DESIRE that my body be cremated
3. a) If my wife OLIVE CELIA CAIRNS of 37 School Road
aforesaid survives me by twenty-eight days I GIVE all my real
and personal property whatsoever and wheresoever subject to
the payment of my debts funeral and testamentary
expenses ("my residuary estate") to her absolutely and I
APPOINT her to be the sole Executrix of this my Will
b) If my said wife does not so survive me or if the gift in clause a) fails for any other reason the following
clauses shall have effect
4. I APPOINT my sons IAN THOMAS CAIRNS of 6 The Cedars
Tilehurst Reading Berkshire and COLIN ROBERT CAIRNS of 2
Crescent Toad Tilehurst Reading Berkshire (hereinafter called
"my trustees" which expression shall where the context so
admits include the trustee or trustees hereof for the time
being) to be Executors and Trustees of this my Will
5. I GIVE all my residuary estate to such of my said sons
as survive me and if more than one in equal shares PROVIDED
THAT if either of my said sons should die in my lifetime or
survive me but die before attaining a vested interest in my
residuary estate leaving children living at my death such
children shall upon attaining the age of eighteen take by
substitution and if more than one in equal shares the share of
my residuary estate which their father would have taken had he
survived me to attain a vested interest
6. My trustees shall <have> the following powers in addition to
their powers under the general law
a) Power to insure any asset of my estate upon such terms as they think fit and to pay premiums out of income or
capital and to use any insurance money received either to
restore the assets or as if it were the proceeds of sale
7. Notwithstanding that my wife is making a Will in the
same terms as me we have agreed that our Wills are not mutual
Wills and each of us shall be free to revoke our respective
Wills at any time and be free to change the way in which we
dispose of our property at any time.
IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 11th day
of August One thousand nine hundred and
ninety-eight.
SIGNED by the said )
THOMAS ARTHUR RAYMOND CAIRNS ) T.A.R. Cairns
in our joint presence )
and then by us in his: )
A. Jillian Martin ) COLLINS DRYLAND &
Secretary ) THOROWGOOD
John Matthews ) 81/83 SCHOOL ROAD
Solicitor ) TILEHURST
READING RG3 5A? SOLICITORS 2000/10/01 Died.
2000/11/?? Probate
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