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Private JOSEPH BARKER

Service Number: 68179
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

87th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 03 July 1917

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY

II. J. 15.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward Simon Barker and Sarah Barker, of Oldham; husband of Jane Barker, of 45, Cowlishaw, Shaw, Lancs.
  • Personal Inscription HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP
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Buried or commemorated at

BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1645
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