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Military service
Service number:
3320489
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
21st Bn.
Birth:
April 20, 1891
Enlistment:
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
August 8, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. D. 5.
Additional information
Son of David and Grace Barr, of Hall's Mills in Lanark Co, Ontario. His brother Wilford died on August 27, 1918 while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment).
Digital gallery of Private David Barr
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Pierre tombale
Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
Registres de circonstances du décès
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Bark to Bazinet. Mircoform Sequence 6; Volume Number 31829_B016716. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 150. Page 343 of 1058. -
Mémorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Private David Barr
Digital gallery of
Private David Barr
Digital gallery of
Private David Barr
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 364 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ADELAIDE CEMETERY (VILLERS-BRETONNEUX) Somme, France
Villers-Bretonneux is a town 16 kilometres east of Amiens and the ADELAIDE CEMETERY is situated west of the village on the north side of the main road from Amiens to St. Quentin.
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