Telegraphist
Ronald William
BARR
Royal Navy
19
Born in Plumstead, Greenwich, London, on 9 December 1925, Ronald Barr was the son of Percy Thomas Howard Barr, a night telephonist at the General Post Office (GPO) and Hilda Gladys Barr (née Dew). It has so far been impossible to establish when he joined the Royal Navy or submarines, and he may have been a member of the crew of the submarine, HMS TIPTOE, which in December 1944 was ‘fitting out’ at Portsmouth in preparation for a deployment to the Far East.
During this period, he would have been accommodated at HMS DOLPHIN in Gosport, on the opposite side of the harbour from the city of Portsmouth. Ronald Barr is reported to have died in the Royal Naval Hospital Chatham, on 26 December 1944. He had been suffering from tubercular meningitis, pulmonary tuberculosis and generalised miliary tuberculosis.
Nineteen year old Ronald Barr, who was unmarried, is buried in the Woolwich (New) Cemetery in London, Section 8, Grave No 30.