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NAME: Barker, Herbert Edwin

RANK: Rifleman

UNIT: King Royal Rifle Corps

BATTALION ETC: 1st Battalion

REGIMENTAL NUMBER: 4246

HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH: Killed in action 30th October 1914

WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: MMenin Gate Memorial, Ypres, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

OTHER INFORMATION: Age 29. Joined 20th February 1902 for 12 years. Re-enlisted for WW1 as in Army Reserve. Son of Charlotte Barker of 9 Old Rd., Seafield, Gosport, Hants (CWGC & 1911 census). Father, Victor Emanuel, died in 1910. In 1901 family living at 12 Bedford Street, Alverstoke, Gosport. Born: Chatham, Kent. Enlisted: Gosport.