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Private EDWARD JAMES BARNES

Service Number: 3661471
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

5/7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 July 1943

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

IV. K. 9.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alice Barnes, of Poplar, London.
  • Personal Inscription COULD WE HAVE HELD HIS HAND OR HEARD HIS LAST FAREWELL IT WOULD HAVE CASED THE PAIN OF THOSE HE LOVED SO WELL

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Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2142
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