Private Ezra Barke

Army Number: 11163

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory MedalBorn at Newstead, Nottinghamshire and lived at 142, Beardall Street, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. Son of Daniel and Sarah Barke of 4 Woodstock Street, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting on 15th July 1909 at Derby. Served in India and went to France on 4th November 1914. He received shell wounds to his scalp on 6th July 1915 and was treated at No.2 Casualty Clearing station, transferred to Etaples, France, and then Harfleur, France. He later returned to his battalion and was killed in action on 16th September 1916, aged 27, during the attack on the German line near Guillemont, France.

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

Thiepval Memorial, France.

Private Barke is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Titchfield Park War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary Magdalen Church War Memorial, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.