Name: BARNES, Michael George Kenyon
Nationality: British
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment / Service: Royal Engineers
Date of Death: 30/03/1945
Age: 32
Service No: 306623
Cemetery: St Mary's, Clitheroe
CWGC Certificate: Michael George Kenyon Barnes
Grave / Memorial Ref: Joint Grave 1601
Address or Parish: Clitheroe
Additional info: Killed in a road accident in Southern England. Educated at Skipton Grammar School. Qualified Civil Engineer. Employee of Great Ouse Catchment Board, King's Lynn, Norfolk. Was attached to the Clitheroe Home Guard as an Instructor. Interred 6th April 1945. Joint grave with his brother in law, Jack ELand. The Rev. H. A. Bland officiated at the internment which took place on Friday in St Mary's Cemetery. Lieutenant Ward, Royal Engineers, was present on behalf of the Officer Commanding and officers and men of Lieutenant Barnes Unit. Lieutenant Colonel Birbeck and R.S.M. Fuller represented the Kings Lynn Home Guard. Mrs Barnes and Mrs Daphne Eland sister of the deceased officer, will have general sympathy in their very sad bereavement. Son of George Graham and Barbara Anne Daisy (A.M.I.C.E) (Nee Willocks) married Chipping Norton 1909. 2 Shawbridge Street, Clitheroe.