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Originally Posted by steve2qec

My late father-in-law used to talk about Bunny Barnes. He was a childhood friend of Bunny's son Gilly Barnes and was at Bunny's bedside when he died because the family were too upset to be present.

I knew Gilbert well he was acouple o years older than me. I also knew the older brothers Bunny, Doddy, Emanuel, and James, think the older brothers hadn't visited their father in donkeys years, James had served with the Accrington Pals after the war he worked at Bulloughs, Gilbert was a late comer to the family when you consider Jame was old enough to serve in WW1, I think the last of the Barnes's I saw was Emanuel he came to visit my father some years ago probably 1n the late 1960's, Gilbert was then living some where in Clayton.