BARBER+HARRY

Barber, Harry, Private, 200122, 1st/5th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Born: Belper, Derbys Enlisted: Belper Previous service number 1536 Also awarded the Territorial Force War Medal Killed in action 1st July 1916 Buried in Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, Grave Reference: III A 10

Harry was identified by a disc with the number 1536 when his body was found during the battlefield clearance and reburied in the cemetery on 22nd December 1919

1911 Census Born Heage, Derbyshire, 1888 A coal miner loader Son of William, a wire drawer, and Annie Barber, of Nether Heage, Derbyshire




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