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Military service
Service number:
R/101359
Age:
22
Rank:
Warrant Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
409 Sqdn.
Death:
December 31, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Row 4. Grave 27.
Additional information
Son of Alfred Higson Barber and Frances Barber, of Vernon, British Columbia, Canada.
Digital gallery of Warrant Officer Bernard Higson Barber
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Photo of Bernard Higson Barber
Bernard Higson Barber (Pilot) is shown in this photo taken by his wartime RAF Navigator Luther Donald Procter at Coleby Grange Airfield in 1942. Bernard was killed in an accident between two Beaufighters which collided over Gainsborough, Lincolnshire in 1942. He is buried at Scopwick Cemetery, Lincolnshire and additional photos of his grave and the cemetery are being forwarded. Bernard stayed with the Procter family at their home in Dorchester, Dorset on leave in the summer of 1942. -
Temporary Grave Marker
The first marking of the grave of Bernard Higson Barber at Scopwick Cemetery, Lincolnshire. This was later replaced with the standard head stone of the Commonwealth Graves Commission. A photo of that headstone is also being supplied -
Grave marker
This is the headstone marking the grave of Bernard Higson Barber at Scopwick Cemetery, Lincolnshire. -
Cemetery
This is a general view of the Scopwick Cemetery, Lincolnshire -
Cemetery
This is the view from the entrance gate at Scopwick Cemetery, Lincolnshire -
Scopwick Church Burial Ground
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Grave Marker
Marker stone of W/O II B. H. Barber in Scopwick Church Burial Ground, Lincolnshire, England. Personal inscription reads: He died for his country that we might live. Gone but never forgotten. Mother, Dad and Joan. -
Document
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of BERNARD HIGSON BARBER
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Document
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Attestation paper
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Attestation paper
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Document
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Birth Certificate
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Letter of recommendation
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Letter of recommendation
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Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Bernard Higson Barber
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Bernard Higson Barber
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Bernard Higson Barber
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Bernard Higson Barber
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Bernard Higson Barber
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Bernard Higson Barber
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Bernard Higson Barber
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Bernard Higson Barber
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Bernard Higson Barber
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 56 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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