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Lieutenant MICHAEL CAMPBELL BARNES

Service Number: 237385
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

144th (8th Bn. The East Lancashire Regt.) Regt.

Date of Death

Died 08 August 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

XXII. B. 5.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of George Alfred and Margaret Campbell Barnes, of Epsom, Surrey, England.
  • Personal Inscription LAUGHTER IS HIS, AND GALLANTRY OF SPIRIT, IMPERISHABLE LOVE ENFOLDS HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2960
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