Lance Corporal Joseph Barber

Army Number: 12793

Battalion: 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Marple, Cheshire and lived at Rowsley, Derbyshire. Son of Joseph and Sarah Barber, of 10, Chatsworth Road, Rowsley. He was a railway station bookstall attendant prior to enlisting at Derby. He went to Gallipoli on 1st July 1915 and was killed in action, 9th August 1915, in the attack at Ismail Oglu Tepe, (Chocolate Hill), Gallipoli, Turkey.

Commemorated: Helles Memorial, Turkey. Panel 150 to 152.

Lance Corporal Joseph Barber is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Katherine’s Church War Memorial, Rowsley, Derbyshire.