Name
Owen Barnes
26 August 1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/09/1916
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
TF/5902
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
1st/8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 12D and 13B
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
St Katherine’s Church Memorial, Ickleford,
Arlesey War Memorial, Beds
Pre War
Owen Barnes was born on 26 August 1892 in Arlesey, Beds, the son of Edward and Agnes Barnes (nee Hallworth) of Wilbury Farm, Arlesey. He was one of thirteen children, but four had died by 1911.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Wilbury Farm where his father was employed as a Horse Keeper on a Farm.
He was educated at Ickleford Public School but had left school by the time of the 1911 Census. when he was living with his family at Wilbury Farm and working as a farm labourer.
Wartime Service
Owen enlisted at Bedford and joined the Middlesex Territorials on 8 March 1916. (He is also listed as 1st/8th Battalion, (Duke of Cambridge's) Middlesex Regiment.
He was sent to France on 8 July 1916 and was killed in action on or after 11 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £3 12s 2d. Pension cards exist with his mother as dependant, but there is no indication of any pension amount received.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Brenda Palmer
