225185 Sgt. Stanley John "Pug" Barker British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Norfolk Regiment from:Northampton I have been trying to trace my father Stanley Barker's wartime service. I know he was in the Norfolk's prior to the war serving on the North West Frontier, was discharged but then called up at the outbreak of the war.
He was then in the 2nd Battalion of the Norfolk's in France and evacuated from Dunkirk. He was then based around Hull somewhere. Whilst based in Hull he was court marshalled for spreading rumors that the "Babes in the Woods" were going to bombed by the Germans next.
The second Battalion were posted to India where at the completion of the war he took his discharge and married my mother there. She was a VAD nurse through out the war.
If anybody should have any information on my father I would appreciate it. He never made it back to the UK and we migrated to Australia in 1961. I intend coming over there next year and spending some time trying to track any info.
The reason I found this site was that I found a newspaper article regarding the La Paradise massacre, regarding the bullets used by the British saying that they spun on entry and this is what caused major wounds, although dad never spoke much about his war time service I clearly remember him telling me how they made Dum Dum bullets, by cutting across the nose of the bullets so when the bullet made contact it would open up and cause more damage, I always thought that was fighting the Japs, could they have been doing this in France?
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