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Trooper WILLIAM JEFFREY BARNES

Service Number: 7953918
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)

Date of Death

Died 11 June 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TILLY-SUR-SEULLES WAR CEMETERY

III. C. 6.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joshua Croft Barnes and Margaret Ann Barnes; husband of Elsie Mary Barnes, of Pickering, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

TILLY-SUR-SEULLES WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 1221
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