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Son of George W. and Eva Barker, of Toronto, Ontario. B.A. (Queen's University, Kingston).
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Reginald Donald Barker
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Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Reginald Donald Barker
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Reginald Donald Barker
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Reginald Donald Barker
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Reginald Donald Barker
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Reginald Donald Barker
This message from CMHQ explains the death of this officer. He and thirty other Canadian POWs were murdered by SS troops of General Kurt Meyer on 8 June 44. In total, about 130 Canadians died this way. Please see the accompanying list of the others soldiers found in the mass grave. Three soldiers listed, escaped and reported the incident to authorities.
Source: Whitehouse via Archives Canada
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Lieutenant Reginald Donald Barker
List of the bodies found in the mass grave in Normandy after the SS troops murdered them 8 June 44. See other document.
Source: Whitehouse via Archives Canada
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Lieutenant Reginald Donald Barker
Letter to the District Chaplains in Canada to help them warn the families involved in the case that public trials for the murderers were about to begin. Most of the families had never been told that there loved ones had been murdered, not 'killed in action'.
Source: Whitehouse via Archives Canada
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Lieutenant Reginald Donald Barker
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Reginald Donald Barker
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens)
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Lieutenant Reginald Donald Barker
From the Toronto Star December 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Reginald Donald Barker
From the Toronto Star December 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Reginald Donald Barker
From the Toronto Star December 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Reginald Donald Barker
This monument is dedicated to the memory of the Canadian soldiers of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and to all other Canadian combatants who played a part in the Liberation of Putot-en-Bessin on 7 June 1944. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Reginald Donald Barker
Lieutenant Reginald Donald Barker is also commemorated on the Memorial at Putot-en-Bessin, FR … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Reginald Donald Barker
Lieutenant R.D. Barker, Royal Canadian Artillery
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, France
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Reginald Donald Barker
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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This message from CMHQ explains the death of this officer. He and thirty other Canadian POWs were murdered by SS troops of General Kurt Meyer on 8 June 44. In total, about 130 Canadians died this way. Please see the accompanying list of the others soldiers found in the mass grave. Three soldiers listed, escaped and reported the incident to authorities. Source: Whitehouse via Archives Canada
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List of the bodies found in the mass grave in Normandy after the SS troops murdered them 8 June 44. See other document. Source: Whitehouse via Archives Canada
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Letter to the District Chaplains in Canada to help them warn the families involved in the case that public trials for the murderers were about to begin. Most of the families had never been told that there loved ones had been murdered, not 'killed in action'. Source: Whitehouse via Archives Canada
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The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens)
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From the Toronto Star December 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star December 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Star December 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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This monument is dedicated to the memory of the Canadian soldiers of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and to all other Canadian combatants who played a part in the Liberation of Putot-en-Bessin on 7 June 1944. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022.
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Lieutenant Reginald Donald Barker is also commemorated on the Memorial at Putot-en-Bessin, FR … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Lieutenant R.D. Barker, Royal Canadian Artillery Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, France
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From the Hamilton Spectator c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 243 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Reviers, on the Creully-Tailleville-Ouistreham road (D.35). Reviers is a village and commune in the Department of the Calvados. It is located 15 kilometres north-west of Caen and 18 kilometres east of Bayeux and 3.5 kilometres south of Courseulles, a village on the sea coast. The village of Beny-sur-Mer is some 2 kilometres south-east of the cemetery. The bus service between Caen and Arromanches (via Reviers and Ver-sur-Mer) passes the cemetery.
It was on the coast just to the north that the 3rd Canadian Division landed on 6th June 1944; on that day, 335 officers and men of that division were killed in action or died of wounds. In this cemetery are the graves of Canadians who gave their lives in the landings in Normandy and in the earlier stages of the subsequent campaign. Canadians who died during the final stages of the fighting in Normandy are buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery.
There are a total of 2,048 burials in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery. There is also one special memorial erected to a soldier of the Canadian Infantry Corps who is known to have been buried in this cemetery, but the exact site of whose grave could not be located.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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