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Private RICHARD WILLIS BARNES

Service Number: 14613232
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 25 April 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BEACH HEAD WAR CEMETERY, ANZIO

X. H. 9.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Septimus and Ann Barnes; husband of Violet Mary Barnes, of Firgrove, Rochdale, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription THO' YOU WERE ONLY A PRIVATE AND HAD NO MEDALS TO SHOW YOU WILL ALWAYS BE A HERO TO THE ONES WHO LOVED YOU SO
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