BORN HULL 13/071885. ONLY SON OF THE LATE HERBERT HENRY STEVENSON & MARY BARKER, AT THIS PROBATE ADDRESS. HE HAD THREE SISTERS. HIS FATHER DIED IN 1898. HIS MOTHER DIED IN 1914. A FITTER’S LABOURER. HE WORKED FOR AT THE HULL CORPORATION TRAMWAY DEPOT, COTTINGHAM ROAD, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 3RD EAST YORKSHIRES. HE HAD BEEN AT THE FRON FOR SIX WEEKS WHEN HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 14/07/1915, AGED 30. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 07/08/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HE LEFT £43 IN HIS WILL TO HIS SISTER, ELIZA ARMES, WIFE OF BENJAMIN STEPHEN ARMES.
First name:
GEORGE BARKER
Regiment:
Military Number:
11141
Rank:
Private
Date Died
14/07/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
30
