During Operation Market Garden, C Coy’s Platoon Officer Lt Peter Barry was wounded at the railway bridge as the 2nd Para Bn advanced to Arnhem Bridge. Sgt Barnbrook carried him off the bridge and left him in the care of the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Lt Barry and Sgt Barnbrook were reunited at the Airborne Forces Museum, Aldershot, 43 years after Operation Market Garden on 17 February 1988.