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 | | James George Barnes was born in Dunedin on 24 September 1908, the younger of twins. |
 | | His father, Richard Rodwell Barnes, was a Londoner who married Sarah Ellen Valentine, an Australian, in Dunedin in 1907, and was at various times an engineer, a hotelkeeper and a window cleaner. |
 | | As a result Barnes was shifted from camp to camp, suffered solitary confinement on several occasions, and was once sentenced to be shot by firing squad. |
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