Military service
Service number:
D/71763
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Royal Canadian Regiment
Birth:
April 17, 1923
Grand Cascapédia, Québec
Enlistment:
August 24, 1940
Montreal, Québec
Death:
January 28, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. H. 6.
Additional information
Son of Robert Angus Barter and Elizabeth Lillian Barter. Husband of Effie Doreen Barter, of Montreal, QC.
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Bobby was from Grand Cascapedia, Quebec in the Gaspe Peninsula. He was the son of a WWI veteran and his uncle Harold Barter was killed at Vimy Ridge in WWI. Bobby along with two sisters and two brothers also served in the Canadian Armed Forces during WWII. Bobby fought in the Italian Campaign and survived the Battle of Ortona in December 1943. He was killed a month later in the village of San Nicola, Italy on the outskirts of Ortona. He left a wife and two young children, one he had never met. He was only twenty years old. -
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Private Robert Henry Barter
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Henry Barter
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Henry Barter
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Henry Barter
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Henry Barter
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Henry Barter
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Henry Barter
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Henry Barter
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Henry Barter
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 244 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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