BORN HULL 1885. SON OF ROBERT & ANN BARNES, OF 44 NORNABELL STREET, HULL, 18 BERSHIRE STREET, HULL AND COURTNEY STREET, HULL. HE RESIDED WITH FLORENCE ALICE, AT 44 , BERKSHIRE STREET, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. PROMOTED TO SERGEANT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON THE SOMME, 10/07/1916, AGED 31. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
HIS WAR PENSION WENT TO FLORENCE ALICE BARNES, AT 92, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SHE MARRIED A CIVILIAN, GUSTAV NORDMARK ON 28 NOVEMBER 1917.
JOHN BARNES IS COMMEMORATED ON THE COURTNEY STREET, ROLL OF HONOUR. Hull Daily Mail 10 October 1916.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 31/10/1917. *
HIS BROTHERS, ARTHUR & GEORGE BARNES WERE ALSO KILLED IN THE WAR. THEY ARE REMEMBERED ON THE HEDON ROAD FAMILY GRAVE.
MANY FAMILY MEMBERS SERVED (SEE HULL DAILY MAIL, 31/10/1917 – PHOTO) *
