Name
John Barnacott
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
UK & Other Memorials
Little Berkhamsted War Memorial
Pre War
John was born in 1888 in Nottingham and in 1901 was living with his parents John and Elizabeth and a brother and sister in Hazel Grove, Cheshire. In 1911 he was recorded as a railway construction bricklayer living with his parents in Swansea. John's father was a railway inspector who came to live in Little Berkhamsted.
Wartime Service
John enlisted at Hyde, Cheshire (probably to the regular army prior to the Great War). He landed in France on 19th January 1915 (23rd Field Company accompanied 1st Division) and died of wounds on 25th September 1915 – probably as a result of actions in the Battle of Loos.
Additional Information
Son of John Barnacott, of Little Berkhamsted, Hertford.
Acknowledgments
Martin Cope, Jim Maynard
