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Corporal WILLIAM HENRY BARNES

Service Number: 2130623
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

87 Assault Sqn.

Date of Death

Died 17 September 1944

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CALAIS CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, LEUBRINGHEN

3. A. 8.

France

Photos taken in cemeteries in France by Director of Technical Services - March 2011 (Note: many of the headstones in this set were photographed by DTS to show the extent to which their condition had deteriorated, where this is apparent an appropriate keyword has been added).

Photographer: Brian Davidson (DTS)

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward and Hannah Barnes; husband of Ethel Mary Barnes, of All Cannings, Wiltshire, England.
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Buried or commemorated at

CALAIS CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, LEUBRINGHEN
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 729
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