Lance Corporal Samuel Barker
Army Number: 240422 (formerly 2114)
Battalion: 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born at Clifton, Derbyshire. Son of Isaac and Annie Fowell (formerly Barker), of Dig Street, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. He enlisted at Ashbourne, went to France on 25th February 1915 and was killed in action, 10th March 1917, aged 19, during the attack at Kite Copse near Gommecourt, France.
Buried: Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, France. Plot 3. Row D. Grave 8.
Lance Corporal Barker is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Ashbourne Memorial Park Gates, War Memorial, Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
St. Oswald’s Church War Memorial, Ashbourne, Derbyshire.