Barry Emanuel Abrahams

Sapper, Royal Engineers
Service number: 1907312
Died 4 Aug 1941
Buried Cairo War Cemetery, Egypt
Age 23

Headstone Inscription
‘WILL LIVE IN OUR MEMORY ALWAYS. DEARLY BELOVED BY PARENTS, ARTHUR AND EVELYN’


Barron was born on 18 March 1918 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire to Maurice and Elizabeth nee Mendoza and he had an older brother Arthur and younger sister Evelyn. Their father worked as a travelling salesman and in 1939 Barron was living with his family at 79 Fallow Court Avenue, Finchley and working as a mantle and costume cutter (ladies’ tailoring).

Barron enlisted in the Royal Engineers in 1940 and was sent to Egypt. His death record states that he died from multiple injuries not due to enemy action.