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Raymond Sperry Barnes

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Raymond Sperry AWMM
  • Surname
    Barnes AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWII 22762 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    21 August 1908 AWMM AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW2 14 Powhiri Avenue, Whangarei, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW2 Mrs Alma Barnes (wife), 14 Powhiri Avenue, Whangarei, North Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Married AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    Died of Sickness, Cause of Death AWMM
    Died of pneumonia AWMM

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Warrant Officer Barnes was the son of Henry Barnes and of Hilda Barnes (nee Barnes), of Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.

    Husband of Alma Barnes, of Whangarei

    Warrant Officer Barnes died of pneumonia. He was the first member of 21st Battalion to become a casualty of war (Cody, 1953 p.24). AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    9 November 1940 AWMM
    Age 32 AWMM
    Camberley, Surrey AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died of Sickness AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Brookwood Military Cemetery, Woking, Surrey, England AWMM 2. D. 9. AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • Memorial name
    Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM

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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • 21 Battalion (Official history of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45) AWMM
      Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139. AWMM
    • Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 2 (Embarkations to 30th June, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      WW2 2: WW2 13 AWMM
    • Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139. AWMM

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