Service Details
Name:
 BARKLEY
Given Name:
 JOHN
Initials:
 J
Service No:
 330688
Rank:
 Able Seaman
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Regiment:
 South African Naval Forces
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Unit:
 H.M.S. Copra
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Date of Death:
 1944-06-06
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Age:
 30
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, after his Landing Craft Assault was destroyed by hostile enemy artillery fire while transferring United States Army Rangers onto Omaha Beach during the D-Day Landings at Normandy, France
Additional
Information:
Son of Michael J. and Harriet J. Barkley, of Southfield, Cape Province, South Africa. HMS COPRA is the acronym for Combined Operations Pay, Ratings and Accounts. Its personnel were in the Royal Navy and served in Combined Operations on landing crafts
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Calvados
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Cemetery:
 BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 X. A. 13.

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