Name
William Barker
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/07/1920
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
M2/138995
Royal Army Service Corps
Mechanical Transport
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HITCHIN CEMETERY
SE. CL. XXVII. B.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Pre War
He was the son of William and Emily Barker of 2, Telegraph Place, Hitchin.
Wartime Service
His Corps Number was M2/138995 and he was in the Motor Transport Section. He is not mentioned in the ‘Soldiers died’ database, probably because he died after the war had finished.
He was buried in Hitchin Cemetery and the Grave reference given is SE.BCL.XXVll. During a visit in 1999 it was not possible to identify the grave.
It should be noted that although Armistice Day was the 11th November 1918, the ‘Termination of the Present War (Definition) Act’ specified that the Great War would officially cease when the Order in Council declared that the war had ended. This was made declaring the 31st August 1921 to be that date. It was therefore decided that Commonwealth personnel who died within the period 4th August 1914 and 31st August 1921 would be classified as casualties of the 1914-1918 War.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
