Fedele Barbara — RMA 3193

Fedele Barbara — Royal Malta Artillery No. 3193

Fedele Barbara was a Gunner in the Royal Malta Artillery, service number 3193. His original Royal Malta Artillery papers survive and provide a valuable primary-source record of his military service, medical examination and the circumstances recorded for his death.

Service Record

The service statement records that Fedele Barbara died on 5 October 1915 from multiple injuries received after an explosion in the Dockyard.

The record also contains a later annotation concerning previous service in the Royal Malta Artillery. It records 12 years of former RMA service being allowed to reckon towards service pay. The same papers show service towards the limited engagement being reckoned from 18 May 1910, while a separate entry records him joining at Malta on 18 May 1915.

Medical Examination

The Dockyard Explosion, 5 October 1915

Fedele Barbara was one of the Royal Malta Artillery personnel killed in the Malta Dockyard explosion of 5 October 1915. The surviving service record provides a direct military-record connection between his RMA service and the accident.

Barbara is recorded on the Dockyard Explosion memorial page as RMA No. 3193, Plot K, Grave 93 at the Capuccini Naval Cemetery in Kalkara.

Return to the Royal Malta Artillery Dockyard Explosion Memorial, 1915

Original Royal Malta Artillery Service Record

The following photographs are of the surviving original RMA papers for Fedele Barbara. They are presented as primary-source material so that researchers and descendants can examine the original forms, handwriting, signatures and later annotations.

Click any photograph to open a larger image in a new tab. The handwritten entries have not been silently modernised; where a reading is uncertain, the original document should be consulted.