Name
Hubert Joseph Barker
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/03/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
5th Bn., attached 1st/8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ANZIN-ST. AUBIN BRITISH CEMETERY
III. B. 16.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial
All Saints Church Memorial, Hertford
Hertford Grammar Memorial - now Richard Hale School, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1897 in Hertford son of Joseph Thomas and Florence Barker, of 22, Queen's Road, Hertford. Educated at Wisley Agricultural College.
Wartime Service
Enlisted initially as 5485 Private the Honourable Artillery Company and obtained a commission as 2nd Lieutenant 5th Middlesex Regiment on 30 Oct 1917 entering France on 30 Dec 1917. He died of wounds probably in one of the casualty clearing stations near Arras.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
