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In memory of:

Signaller Amber Randal Barnard

Military service

Service number: 1250274
Age: 21
Rank: Signaller
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Garrison Artillery
Division: 3rd Bde.
Birth: July 23, 1898 Owen Sound, Ontario
Enlistment: March 16, 1917 Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death: May 21, 1920

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Mil. 365.
Additional information
Son of Henry and Lydia E. Barnard, of Winnipeg, Manitoba; husband of Fanny Elizabeth Barnard.
Additional citations

British War Medal, Victory Medal

WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY Manitoba, Canada

The cemetery is located immediately west of the Red River College, at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

During the First World War, Winnipeg was the headquarters of No 10 Military District and it contained six military hospitals of 972 beds. Air force and army training camps were established in the area during the Second World War, with No 103 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre at Fort Garry. Winnipeg (Brookside) Cemetery contains 299 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 149 from the Second World War, most of them in the special military plot.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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