Sergeant Charles Edwin Barker

Army Number: 202776 (formerly 6290 2/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment)

Battalion : 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Wirksworth, Derbyshire and lived at 11 Bowling Green Lane, Wirksworth. Son of Henry and Alice Barker, of West End, Wirksworth; Husband of Louie Jane Storer Barker, of “West View”, Cromford Road, Wirksworth. He was a printer at A. Barker & Sons printers and newsagents prior to being mobilised at the outbreak of the war as territorial reservist into the 2/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment as a musketry instructor stationed at Colchester, Essex. He was posted 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 11th March 1917 and went to France on 12th March 1917. He was posted 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 3rd April 1917. He was killed in action, 22nd April 1918, aged 36, in the attack on the German positions near Aveluy Wood, France.

Commemorated : Pozieres Memorial, France. Panel 52 to 54.

Sergeant Charles Edwin Barker is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Mary’s Church War Memorial, Wirksworth, Derbyshire.