Second Lieutenant William Geoffrey Wright Barber

Army Number: n/a

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

He lived at Duffield, Derbyshire. Son of William and Emily Sarah Barber, of Duffield, Educated at Rossall School, Fleetwood, Lancashire. He enlisted at Duffield and was gazetted Second Lieutenant 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 12th February 1915. He went to France on 12th July 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Second Lieutenant William Geoffrey Wright Barber is also commemorated on the following local memorials
St. Aulkmund’s Church War Memorial, Duffield, Derbyshire.
Chevin Golf Club War Memorial, Duffield, Derbyshire.
Rossall School Chapel War Memorial, Fleetwood, Lancashire.