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Lance Corporal JOHN BARKER

Service Number: 022697
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Army Ordnance Corps

Date of Death

Died 17 August 1918

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

JANVAL CEMETERY, DIEPPE

I. O. 6.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 2nd Reinforcement Training Camp.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John T. B. and Blanche Barker, of 53, Antill St., Stapleford, Notts.
  • Personal Inscription DROWNED WHILST SAVING OTHERS AGED 26 YEARS
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Buried or commemorated at

JANVAL CEMETERY, DIEPPE
Seine-Maritime France
Number of casualties: 248
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