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Pte. Richard Thomas Barnes
British Army 7th Field Ambulance Royal Army Mdical Corps
from:Shipston on Stour
Pte Thomas Barnes was my grandfather. He married my grandmother in 1918 in Redcar. My grandmother was a widow her husband a Royal Artillery soldier who died in 1917 of pneumonia. All my grandfather's relations were from Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire how he ended up in North Yorkshire and married my widowed grandmother is a mystery. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps. He died in 1928 getting his leg removed whilst under the influence of chloroform, ironic really got through the war and lost it in civvy street

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