Albert Edward Barker
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War Memorial: Place
and inscription
Blackmore
War Memorial: Pte. A. Barker Essex
Church
window: Edward Barker
Ongar
& District War Memorial Hospital Roll of Honour (Blackmore) as E Barker
[ERO A10815]
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Rank:
Private
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Regiment:
Essex
Regiment. 2nd Battalion.
No. 32975 [CWGC]
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Service Details:
There
are several men by the name of Albert Edward Barker who served in the Essex
Regiment. Blackmore’s fallen victim
is:
Albert
Edward Barker
Essex
Regiment 2nd Battalion
Born:
Romford
Lived:
Blackmore
Enlisted:
Epping
Killed
in action. France. 10.10.1917
No
Known Grave [Source: Essex Regiment
Museum database]
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Personal and family
information:
Son
of Edward and Amy Barker; husband of Lily Quilter (formerly Barker), of 2,
Marion Villas, Oldchurch Rd., Romford. [CWGC]
1911
Census. This Romford born man was an
off licence holder in Camberwell, South East London. His wife, Lily, three years older than him,
aged 32, assisted him in the running of the business. At that time they had
two children, Lilian Amy, aged 7, and Edward Leslie, aged 5, who were both at
school. Staying with them on the night
of the census was a visitor and monthly nurse, Emma Langstone, aged 64, from
Maldon Essex. The family were all born
in Romford.
1881
Census. Records Lilly Langstone b. 1879 Dagenham, daughter of George &
Emma, living Chigwell.
Listed
(erroneously) as absent voter at The Bull on the 1918 Electoral Register
(because he had died) [ERO C/E 2/1/1].
Baptism
of daughter at St Laurence Blackmore: 31st January 1913. Doris Emma, daughter of Albert Edward
& Lily Barker, Licensed Victualler [ERO 266/1/17]
Kelly’s
Directory 1914 records the landlord of The Bull Blackmore as Albert Edward
Barker. In 1917 we find the landlady
as publican: Mrs Lily Barker.
[http://www.deadpubs.co.uk/EssexPubs/Blackmore/bull.shtml]. Given the trade undertaken in the 1911
census this appears to be the link between the man and Blackmore.
After
Albert’s death Lily remarried and moved presumably from Blackmore back to Romford.
Her surname was Quilter.
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Date of Death:
10th
October 1917 [CWGC]
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Age:
38
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Where died:
Died
at Peolcappelle. [CWGC]
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Place of Burial or
Commemoration:
Commemorated
on Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
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List of Sources:
Commonwealth
War Graves Commission, deadpubs.co.uk, Essex Record Office, Essex Regiment
Museum.
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