Private Anthony Albert Barwick. Memories from Dunkirk to Germany with 69th Medium Regt, Royal Artillery
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posted on 2024-06-05, 18:11 authored by Their Finest Hour Project TeamAnthony (Tony) Barwick was from Liverpool. He enlisted in 1938 and after Dunkirk met and married my my mother who lived in Surrey in 1943. He didn't see her again until 1946. From the Dunkirk withdrawal via Wormhoudt, he served in El Alamein and Monte Cassino with the 8th Army.
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A file detailing my fathers memories, key point being the ambush of his 69th Medium Regt 242 battery column at Wormhoudt, and death there of Earl of Aylesford, its commander, and a link to the massacre in the barn by one of the 69th's survivors.Person the story/items relate to
Anthony (Tony) Barwick, a private in the Royal ArtilleryPerson who shared the story/items
Kevin BarwickRelationship between the subject of the story and its contributor
He was my father.Type of submission
Shared online via the Their Finest Hour project website.Record ID
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