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Military service
Age:
33
Rank:
Fireman and Trimmer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Rio Dorado (London, England) (147726)
Birth:
Kelligrews, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death:
March 16, 1941
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 19.
Additional information
Son of John Charles Barnes and Fannie Taylor, St. John’s, Newfoundland. Husband of Ellen Mary Rose, St. John’s. Father of a child.
The Rio Dorado was on route in convoy from the Tyne, England, to Baltimore, Pennsylvania, USA, when it was attacked and sunk by the German battleship Gneisenau east of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic. All 39 crew members lost their lives.
Digital gallery of Fireman and Trimmer Lester Barnes
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Merchant Navy Monument in St. John's, NL
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Dedication
Digital gallery of
Fireman and Trimmer Lester Barnes
Digital gallery of
Fireman and Trimmer Lester Barnes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 91 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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