Name
John Barnacott
15 June 1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/09/1915
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
23572
Royal Engineers
23rd Field Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
I. C. 16.
France
Headstone Inscription
WORK NOBLY DONE REST WELL WON
UK & Other Memorials
Little Berkhamsted Village Memorial
Pre War
John was born on 15 June 1888 in Nottingham, the son of John and Sarah Jane Barnacott, and baptised on 26 June 1888 at St Ann's Church, Nottingham, the same day as his sister Hannah who was born on 20 May 1881. They were then living at 8 Dover Terrace, Lotus Street, Nottingham and his father was working as a miner.
They had moved to Boothbanks, Slaithwaite, Yorkshire by the time of the 1891 Census and his father was working as a miner (tunnel). His brother Albert was born in 1892 in Marsden, Yorks.
His mother died in 1895, aged 32, and on the 1901 Census the family (including new stepmother Hannah) were living at Hazelgrove cum Bramhall, Cheshire where his father was working as a railway inspector.
On the 1911 Census he was recorded as a railway construction bricklayer living with his father and stepmother at 66 Martin Street, Swansea. John's father was a clerk of works on the Great Western Railway and later lived in Little Berkhamsted.
Wartime Service
John enlisted at Hyde, Cheshire and served in France from 19 January 1915 with the 23rd Field Company, Royal Engineers. (The 23rd Field Company accompanied the 1st Division).
He died of wounds on 25 September 1915, probably as a result of actions in the Battle of Loos, and is buried in Noeux-les-Mines Communal Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £6 and pay owing of £3 1s 9d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Martin Cope, Jim Maynard
