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David Barrie

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David Barrie (image courtesy of Irene Phillips)

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment: 22.10.1915
  • Place of enlistment: Brandon, Manitoba.
  • Service no: 152280
  • Rank: Private
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry
  • Unit/Ship: 15th Battalion
  • Place of Death: France
  • Age at Death: 23
  • Date of Death: 26.09.1916
  • Burial Country: France
  • Cemetery: Vimy Memorial
  • Grave/Mem Ref no:

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 30.12.1892
  • Place of Birth: 26 Campbell St, Lochee, Dundee
  • Address: 850 - 8th St, Brandon, Manitoba
  • Occupation: Hardware Clerk
  • Mother:

    Ann Jane Downie

  • Father:
  • Siblings:

    Fanny, born 1888

  • Spouse:

    Agnes Melville Cable Barrie, 850 – 8th St, Brandon, Manitoba

  • Children:

    Agnes Mae, born 09.05.1916 (Brandon, Manitoba)

More about David Barrie

David has no known grave but is remembered on the Vimy Memorial

For more information on David visit, David’s Memorial also David’s Service Record and Circumstances of Death Register

For reasons unknown David Barrie is not included on the original Dundee City Roll of Honour.

David was born David Downie at 26 Campbell Street, Dundee.  No father is given on the Birth Certificate. His mother was Ann Jane Downie b. 22 Jul 1868 – no father given on birth reg – (on the Census forms she gives her name as Jane Ann).  Ann Jane also had a daughter, again illegitimate, called Fanny b. 1888 in 16 Balgay Street.

Jane’s mother was Mary Ann Downie.   In 1891 Mary Ann, Jane, David and Fanny are living at 30 Campbell Street.  Also there is Mary Ann’s father, Thomas Downie.  However Mary Ann has taken the surname Bruce!  In the 1901 Census she has become Mary Ann Barrie and they are living at 32 Campbell Street, Dundee.

Information researched and supplied by Gary Thomson, additional information and image very kindly supplied by Irene Phillips.

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