Private Harold Barker

Army Number: 266861

Battalion: 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived in Nottingham. Son of Edward and Edith Annie Barker, of 51, Rupert Street, Nottingham. He was a shop assistant prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He was killed in action, 6th December 1917, aged 21, whilst serving in the line near Ribecourt, France.

Commemorated: Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, France. Panel 8.

Private Harold Barker is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. John the Evangelist Church War Memorial, Carrington, Nottingham.
Loggerheads Public House War Memorial, St Mary’s Church Nottingham.
J.B. Lewis Employees War Memorial, Courtaulds Offices, Hayden Road, Nottingham.