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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
A/2979
Age:
35
Rank:
Company Sergeant Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
" C " Coy. 1st Bn.
Enlistment:
Guelph, Ontario
Death:
September 9, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. D . 21.
Additional information
Son of Henry and Ann Barr, of Cottingham, England; husband of Laura Barr, Beverley, Yorks, England.
Additional citations
Military Medal
Digital gallery of Company Sergeant Major James Barr
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 50 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, CONTALMAISON Somme, France
Contalmaison is a village in the Department of the Somme, 6 kilometres east-north-east of Albert. The Sunken Road, from which the cemetery is named, is part of the Contalmaison-Pozieres road, and the cemetery lies a little east of the road.
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