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Military service
Service number:
706462
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
29th Bn.
Birth:
May 19, 1897
Grimsby, Ontario
Enlistment:
January 3, 1916
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
December 20, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. D. 2.
Additional information
Son of George Henry and Rose Ann Barr, of Colwood, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private Percy Gladstone Barr
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Grimsby Ontario War Memorial
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Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of January 12, 1017. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y28uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of January 14, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y30uvic#page/n0/mode/1up
Digital gallery of
Private Percy Gladstone Barr
Digital gallery of
Private Percy Gladstone Barr
Digital gallery of
Private Percy Gladstone Barr
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 50 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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HERSIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Hersin is a village about 5 kilometres south of Bethune and about 2 kilometres west of the main road from Bethune to Arras. The HERSIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY and Extension lies to the north-east of the village.
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