Neil (Dick) BARNES

BARNES, Neil

Service Number: SX10372
Enlisted: 26 November 1940, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 22 Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Workshop AAOC
Born: Marra, New South Wales, Australia, 24 October 1912
Home Town: Woodville, Charles Sturt, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Assurance Clerk
Died: Dysentery whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Burma (Myanmar), 18 October 1943, aged 30 years
Cemetery: Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, (Burma)
Plot A4, Row A, Grave 3.
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Streaky Bay and District Roll of Honour WW2
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Biography contributed by Daryl Jones

Son of Thomas Andrew and Louisa May Barnes nee Thomas; husband of Esta Annie Leah Barnes nee Lamb, of Woodville, South Australia.

HIS DUTY FEARLESSLY AND NOBLY DONE EVER REMEMBERED

Married 1939 to Esther Annie Leah Lamb.

Employed by CML Insurance.

Survived by his wife, daughter, parents, sisters Mrs Dulcie Drummond and Nora Robinson, brothers Frederick, Kenneth, Ronald, Linley and Keith.