Private Charles Henry Barber

Army Number: 203196 (formerly 30678 Bedfordshire Regiment)

Battalion: 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at lived at Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. Son of Charles and Frances Henry, of 16, Southampton Place, Chatteris. He was a farm labourer prior to enlisting on 28th June 1916 at Whitehall, Middlesex. He was transferred to the 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 25th October 1916 and went to France on 26th February 1917. He was killed in action, 4th April 1917, in the attack on the German positions at Le Vergier, France.

Buried Vadencourt British Cemetery, Maissemy, France. Plot 4. Row B. Grave 20.

Private Charles Henry Barber is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Peter’s Church War Memorial, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire.