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Lieutenant MATTHEW SEMPLE LEGGAT BARR

Service Number: 235689
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

Date of Death

Died 20 July 1943

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

I. G. 46.

Italy

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment seconded to 5/7th Bn. Gordon Highlanders
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Jeanie Barr, of East Kilbride, Lanarkshire. M.A., Hons. (Glasgow).
  • Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEE
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Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2142
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