Barrie Alexander Pte 3133968
Personnel Entry
Name Barrie Alexander
Army number 3133968
Rank Pte
Decorations
Date of birth Not yet known - 1919/20.
Age 25
Unit Enlisted in the Royal Scots Fusiliers 18/4/1940. Trf to The Durham Light Infantry 26/6/40, Posted 11th Bn DLI. Served Iceland. Served Normandy. Trf Dorsetshire Regiment 28/8/1944 on the disbandment of the 11th Battalion. Trf to the Middlesex Regiment 19/3/1945. Understood (according to the Dorsetshire Enlistment Book) to have been killed in a Battle Accident while with 1st Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment on 27/3/1945.
Company/Battery
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role
Joined Brigade 26/6/1940.
Promotions
Wounded
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action 27/3/1945
Home address Son of Annie Barrie of Girdle Toll, Ayrshire. Buried Grave 54. B. 3. Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
Source table 11DLI
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