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Pilot Officer JOHN SANDES BARNWELL

Service Number: 33432
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

29 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 19 June 1940

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SCOPWICK CHURCH BURIAL GROUND

Row 2. Grave 31.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frank Sowter Barnwell, and of Marjorie Barnwell, of Stoke Bishop, Bristol. Awarded the King's Medal, R.A.F. College, Cranwell, 1939. His brothers Flt. Lieut. Richard Antony Barnwell and Pilot Offr. David Usher Barnwell, D.F.C., also died on Service.
  • Personal Inscription HIS BROTHERS RICHARD ANTONY FLIGHT LIEUTENANT, AND DAVID USHER PILOT OFFICER, D.F.C. WERE LOST ON OPERATIONS 29TH OCTOBER 1940 AND 14TH OCTOBER 1941,
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