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Herbert Carrick Barr

In memory of:

Second Lieutenant Herbert Carrick Barr

December 11, 1916

Military Service


Age:

22

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Flying Corps

Division:

10th Sqdn.

Additional Information


Son of Frederick Herbert and Ida Jane Barr, of Pleasantville, N.Y., U.S.A. Native of Saint John, New Brunswick.

Commemorated on Page 569 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

GORRE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

III. D. 13.

Location:

Gorre is a hamlet 2.5 kilometres east of Beuvry. Leave Beuvry on the D72, crossing the railway and then the Canal d'Aire on the way. The Cemetery is 150 metres from the church in Gorre, to the left of the D72.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Photo of Herbert Carrick Barr– 2nd Lieutenant Herbert Carrick Barr No.10 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, formerly a sergeant (No.1606) in the Canadian Army Service Corps.  Shot down while acting as the observer in a BE2g that was on a photographic flight over France on December 11, 1916, aged 22 years.  British Real Photo Postcard.

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