One other thing... his burial is shown on the New Brunswick Archives site under "Cemeteries" but his death year has been inaccurately transcribed as 1916. Charles B. BARKER (Cpl) http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/NBCemeteries/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&Key=26072 On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:58 PM, S. Olfert <[email protected]> wrote: > Beverley, > > The War Memorial online shows a Charles BARKER d. 13 Mar 1918; s/o Charles > William > BARKER. Could this be him?? It shows his birth place as North Devon, York > Co., age > 26 - right age, same place of birth as on his Attestation papers and that > he was buried > in the Nashwaaksis Douglas Rural Cemetery. > > > http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections/virtualmem/Detail&casualty=2755847 > > It shows that he is on page 363 of the 1st WW Book of Remembrance - a copy > of the page is > on this site. The actual Book is in Ottawa with military guards attending > the various Books of > Remembrance. If this is him (although father's name is different than > what you are showing), then > you can email to the address shown on "to order a copy of this page..." > and they will tell you > which day of the year page 363 is turned and you can be there at that time. > > Shirley > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Beverley Clarkson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I am tracing down the family of *John S Barker* ( 1831-1912) and my great >> great aunt,*Sarah Love Barker* (1840-1937) and their grandson *Charles >> Benjamin Barker* who was killed in WWI in 1918, less than 2 months after >> joining up. His parents were *Judson Barker*( 1861-1925) and *Isobella >> Bain*(1867-1918) who died three weeks after her son. i recall my >> grandmother >> telling me some 50 years ago that there was a tragic story there and I m >> wondering if anyone can tell me. I ll be thinking of him on Nov 11 as it >> seems noone else is likely to. But perhaps there were others in the family >> or someone might know where he was taken down. >> >> I ve done PANB, Veterans Affairs and Ancestry so am hoping someone has >> more >> personal infomration. >> -- >> Beverley Clarkson >> Sambro Head, Nova Scotia >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> List Announcements can be found at >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcharlo/nblistann.htm >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >