Name
Jack Barker
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
06/02/1941
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
5955203
Poineer Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HITCHIN CEMETERY
Hitchin Town Memorial
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
AS WE LOVED HIM SO WE MISS HIM IN OUR HEARTS HE IS EVER NEAR
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
His Service Number was 5955203 and he was buried in Hitchin Cemetery. He was born in and resident in Hertfordshire but was stationed in the Midlands when he was killed in an air raid.
His Commonwealth War Graves Commission stone at Grave 403 North West Extension bears the additional inscription "As we loved him so we miss him. In our hearts he is ever near".
He was the son of William and Elizabeth Barker of Westmill, Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Mr Derek Conder - his nephew
