Name
Barry Hartwell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/10/1914
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
8th Gurkha Rifles
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NEUVE-CHAPELLE MEMORIAL
Panel 34 to 36.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 2 Dec 1880 in Lucknow, India son of Sydney Charles Elphinstone Hartwell and Jeanette Marion (Jenkins) Hartwell. Educated at Haileybury College 1894–97. Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant Welsh Regiment on 18 Apr 1900 from the Militia. Promoted Lieutenant on 26 Apr 1902 and transferred to the Indian Army on 13 Sep 1903. Served in Tibet Expedition (1903-04). Silver Medal of St John of Jerusalem for saving life in the earthquake at Dharmsala Apr 1905
Promoted to Captain on 18 Apr 1909. He married Emily Maybell Agnes Dobbs of 64 Morehampton Road, Dublin in St. Thomas Cathedral, Bombay, India and had one daughter.
Wartime Service
He entered France on 29 Oct 1914 and was killed in action near Festubert the following day.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
