Name
Frederick James Barker
Birth recorded June quarter 1872
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1915
42
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3/4835
Hampshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 35.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No headstone he is commemorated on Menin Gate
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Sandridge memorials
Pre War
Frederick James Barker was born in April 1872 in Sandridge, Hertfordshire, to William Barker, age 31 and Esther nee Norman(*1), age 32 and baptised at St Leonards Church, Sandridge, Hertfordshire, on 6 Oct 1872.
He was the fifth of five sons and following Frederick’s birth , two daughters were born over the next four years.
His mother died in the Spring of 1880, and in the 1881 census Frederick was living with his widowed father and four brothers. All in Sandridge, Hertfordshire, Frederick was a recorded as a scholar.
Frederick married Gertrude Binnell on 30th September 1899 in Edmonton, London when was 27 years old.
In 1901 Frederick and Gertrude are living at 94 Blackwall Buildings, Whitechapel and he is recorded as a Water Company labourer.
In 1902 Frederick becomes a father for the first and last time, a son, Harold Frederick born on 13th July and baptised later that year on the 5th October.
At that time Frederick and family were living at 77 Redwald Road, Clapton Park and his occupation is a Meter Inspector.
In the 1911 census Frederick, Gertrude and Harold are living at 85, Hassett Road, Homerton, London and his occupation was a Meter Fixer, employed by the Metropolitan Water Board.
Officially recorded as born in Sandridge , Hertfordshire and was living in Hackney, London when he enlisted in Stratford, Essex.
Wartime Service
Killed in action
Additional Information
Following his death Gertrude and Harold received a payment of £3.3s.3d on 16.9.15 and then on 21.7.19 a further £3.
*1 CWGC records him as the son of William and Hannah Barker, of Sandridge, St. Albans, Herts.; husband of Gertrude Barker, of 57, Sylvester House, Sylvester Rd., Hackney, London. However, christening records confirm Esther and no records have ben found to suggest Hannah..
Acknowledgments
Sarah Burns
Jonty Wild
