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Cpl. Percy Charles Barnard

British Army Essex Regiment

from:Chelmsford, Essex

Essex Newsman, Friday 17 December 1943. Chelmsford Wounded and Missing: Mr.and Mrs. F.W. Barnard, Broomfield Road, have received official news that their youngest son, Cpl. Percy C. Barnard, Essex Regt., has been wounded and is missing in the Mediterranean theatre of war. He is 22, and had three birthdays in the Middle East. Being a Territorial, he was called up at the out-break of war. He was employed by Messrs. J. Debnam and Sons, tobacconists and hairdressers.

The Essex Chronicle, Friday 27 April 1945 War Report Free at Last, Essex Prisoners of War Come Home

Chelmsford POW Home: Mr and Mrs F.W. Barnard, of 7 Coopers Row, Broomfield Road, Chelmsford, have received word from their youngest son, Corporal Percy Charles Barnard, that he has been liberated and is in hospital in this country. Percy was taken prisoner while with the 1/15th Essex Regt., in Italy in November, 1943, when he was wounded. He writes that he is in the best of health and hopes to be home shortly. He was liberated by the Americans while in Stalag 13c.



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