Private Samuel William Barnett

Army Number: 12038

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

Born in Birmingham and lived at Bolsover, Derbyshire. Son of Hannah Colley, of 1 Charlesworth Street, Carr Vale, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Chesterfield. He went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th September 1914, aged 23, when the battalion was ordered to retake trenches taken by the Germans at the head of the Troyon Valley, France, during the Battle of the Aisne.

Buried Chauny Communal Cemetery British Extension, France. Plot 6. Row C. Grave 10.

Private Samuel William Barnett is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Bolsover War Memorial, Bolsover, Derbyshire.