Date of birth:

July 19th, 1923 (Ottawa/Ontario, Canada)

Date of death:

February 15th, 1945 (Mook en Middelaar/Limburg, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Canadian War Cemetery Groesbeek
Plot: III. Row: D. Grave: 10.

Service number:

C/90149

Nationality:

Canadian

Lance Corporal
Royal Canadian Engineers
23 Field Coy.

On February 15 at half past ten in the morning Tony Barbaro and two other engineers launched a small motorboat to capture a boom to draw it ashore.
The water level of the river was extremely high from meltwater after heavy snowfall in January. When they reached the boom the boat was swept up against the boom. Something on the boom cut a hole in the bottom of the boat and it quickly filled with water.
Lance Corporal Barbaro gave the two life jackets that were in the boat to his comrades and said he would try get ashore without a life jacket. Unfortunately he could not manage in the wild water and drowned; he was only 22 years old.

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