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Gunner ALFRED BARLING

Service Number: 674
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South African Heavy Artillery

Natal Siege Bty., 74th

Date of Death

Died 19 September 1916

Age 37 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XV. A. 1.

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: Director of Technical Services, CWGC

  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of John Aldridge Barling and Louisa Martha Barling, of Southampton, England.
  • Personal Inscription NOBLY DID WHAT HE COULD
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Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 11554
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