"Village dispensary work, Yuen Taani, a village station of Sun Chong, Kwang Tung, China, 1927". Fr. Robert J. Cairns is performing minor medical treatment to a young Chinese boy. Other children and adults look on and wait in line. The scene is outside in a courtyard and the "patient" is seated on a chair. Fr. Cairns was born in Glasgow, Scotland and became a Maryknoll Missionary in 1918 at the age of thirty four. He spent many years in China in Yeung Kong [now Yang-Chiang], Fachow [now Fahsien] and eventually Sancian Island. He was captured by the Japanese on Sancian Island and killed. His presumed date of death is December 14, 1941.
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