Kenneth Henry BARHAM

BARHAM, Kenneth Henry

Service Number: NX66
Enlisted: 23 October 1939
Last Rank: Major
Last Unit: 2nd/4th Infantry Battalion
Born: Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, 23 February 1911
Home Town: Not yet discovered
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Killed in Action, Greece, 12 April 1941, aged 30 years
Cemetery: Phaleron War Cemetery, Athens, Greece
Memorials: Albany Princess Royal Garrison Honours List, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Parramatta High School WW2 Honour Roll
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Major, NX66
23 Oct 1939: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Major, NX66, 2nd/4th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Zidane McNamara

So we went down to the junction on the road and there was a Major Barham there. They were just streaking up the road in disorder. So Major Barham said to Copeland, “Go up the front and stop them. We’ve got to get organised or we’ve got no chance at all.”

All of a sudden a German came up on the side of a road. A German sergeant. He stood up. Where he came from, I don’t know. The only thing I can think of, there must have been a drain under the road and he crawled up that drain and when he got out the other side he stood up. When he stood up he was in the middle of the Australians. He called on Major Barham to surrender. With which, Major Barham and him fired at the same time and they both got killed. I don’t know whether it was Major Barham killed him, because everyone fired at him. So then we were left without the officers or anything.

From Malcolm Keshan's interview on December 4th, 2003. 


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