BARNES C.
Charles Edward Barnes
Lance Serjeant 305489
2nd/5th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Charles Edward Barnes died on Wednesday 26 September 1917, age 24, and is commemorated at the TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
He was born c1894 at Sutton-in-Ashfield, to parents John & Hannah Barnes. John Barnes was a Coal Hewer, who was living with his family at Spring Street, Sutton, on the 1901 census. Both parents were native to Sutton-in-Ashfield.
Notts Free Press, 2nd November 1917
Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 27th September 1918
Barnes - In Loving Memory of Sergeant Charles Edward Barnes
(Sutton-in-Ashfield), who was killed in Action, September 26th , aged 25 years.
We never thought when he said "Good-bye", He had gone to a far off
land to die; His heart was true, his spirit brave, His resting place a soldier's
grave. - From his loving son Charlie, Father, Mother, Sisters and Brother- in-
Law.
Notts Free Press - Sutton's Roll of Honour - 10th January 1919
Barnes, Sergeant Charles, Sherwood Foresters.
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War
1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
BARNES Charles Edward, born Huthwaite. Enlisted at Mansfield (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield) Lance Sgt. 305489 in the 2/5th Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters & was killed in Action, at Flanders, on the 26th September 1917.
Researched by Helen Wilson and Heather Faulkes.
Photograph kindly supplied by David Barnes.
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