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- Family History Day - The National Archives
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- David Joseph Barry (Able Seaman)
- Location of story:听
- North-East Scottish Coast (HMS Daring)
- Background to story:听
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:听
- A3365246
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- 04 December 2004
Submitted by by Marc Harding, CSV Media
From: David John Brown of Manningtree, Essex.
My Uncle, David Joseph Barry, joined the Navy in the mid-war years in his mid-teens, having been a page boy as a youngster.
He served on a variety of Royal Navy warships and shore bases through the mid-war years and into the second world war.
He was married in Nov 1934 to Ellen Field at Westminster Register Office in London - and they had a baby boy in 1936 at the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, called Joseph David Barry. They then lived at the Naval Married Quarters in the Portsmouth area.
In Feb 1938, he joined HMS Daring and served at sea in various theatres of war.
HMS Daring was torpedoed on 18th Feb 1940 and sunk with very few survivors. Sadly, David did not survive and his body was never found.
We do not know if his wife Ellen and son Joseph survived the war or are alive today.
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