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Lieutenant James Anthony Barry, Royal Signals, OC 12 Platoon, D Company, 2 PARA.

He was killed in a confused situation where the Argentines perceived that he intended to surrender whereas Barry thought that it was they who wished to do so, the circumstances made more complicated by friendly fire from Darwin Hill. He was 24 years old.

Lt ‘Jim’ Barry is buried at Aldershot Military Cemetery.

See account of Goose Green co-edited by Colonel David Benest

 

 

Group portrait of 2 PARA officers, April 1982.

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