Service Details
Name:
 BARRY
Given Name:
 ADRIAN MICHAEL
Initials:
 A M
Rank:
 Surgeon Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 H.M.S. Punjabi
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Date of Death:
 1942-05-01
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Date of Birth:
 1911-10-02
Age:
 30
Cause of Death:
 Killed when battleship HMS King George V crashed into PUNJABI'S port side just abaft the engine room and went through her "like a butter knife at 25 knots". PUNJABI'S stern sank almost immediately.
Additional
Information:
Son of Richard Alan Barry and Gladys Isabel Barry (nee Vander Byl), of Franschhoek, Cape Province, South Africa. M.B., B.Ch., double first Pathology (Cantab.), Gold Medallist University College Hospital. His brother also died on service
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Devon
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Cemetery:
 PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 76, Column 3.

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