Lest we forget: BARNES, Joe – Durham Light Infantry – Small Arms School Corps

Surname: Barnes
First Name: Joe
Nickname: Digger
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Permanent Staff Location: Plymouth
Permanent Staff Service Date: 1956-59
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Regiment: Durham Light Infantry - Small Arms School Corps
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Date of Death: 2008 July 10
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From Topper Brown – He was the SASC QMSI at Plymouth from 1956-59 and many will have met him again in the early to mid sixties at Hythe where before being commissioned he was DSM N Div and then SMI Small Arms Wing.

From Alec Whitely – I remember QMSI Barnes very well. I was in several shooting teams which he supervised he was a great bloke and so different in attitude to many of the PSI’s