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Private ROBERT BARNES

Service Number: 14641710
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Border Regiment

1st (Airborne) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 September 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY

30. C. 8.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Margaret Barnes, of Cleator Moor, Cumberland.
  • Personal Inscription I SAW YOU SMILE LOOKING SO BRIGHT AND WELL, I LITTLE THOUGHT IT WAS OUR LAST FAREWELL

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Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1773
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