[Illustration: =James Barnett.=]
=BARNETT, KNIGHT=, L.-Corpl., No. 184, A Coy., 1st Battn. Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of Arthur Nelson Barnett, of Sydney, N.S.W., Stipendiary Magistrate, by his wife, Ada Hargrave, dau. of Henry Breton, M.D.; _b._ Wentworth, N.S.W., 30 Dec. 1888; educ. Church of England Grammar School, North Sydney; was a surveyor, but on the outbreak of war volunteered, and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, leaving with the first contingent. He was wounded at the first landing of the Australians at Gallipoli on Sunday, 25 April, 1915, and was sent into hospital in Egypt. After convalescence he returned to the Dardanelles in time to take part in the charge at Lone Pine on 6 Aug., and was killed on that day while on observation duty in the first line of Turkish trenches; _unm._
[Illustration: =Knight Barnett.=]
=BARNETT, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 14739, 4th Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Isaac Barnett, of 8, Cradock Street, Loughborough (_d._ 12 Oct. 1915), by his wife, Sarah (_d._ 26 March, 1911), dau. of Samuel Bassford, of Burton-on-the-Wolds; _b._ Wymeswold, co. Leicester, 22 Feb. 1893; educ. there, and Loughborough; enlisted 29 Jan. 1915, and _d._ 11 Dec. 1915, of wounds received in action on the Western front by the bursting of a shell; _unm._
=BARNETT, WILLIAM STUART=, Corpl., No. 27868, Signal Coy., R.E., only _s._ of the late William Barnett, of Sutton, Jeweller and Silversmith (died 5 Feb. 1895), by his wife, Louisa (1, Wickham Road, Sutton), only dau. of James Crute, of Honor Oak; _b._ Sutton, co. Surrey, 4 March, 1892; educ. Laleham House, Northdown, Margate; enlisted in the 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt., 12 Oct. 1910, promoted L.-Corpl. Aug. 1912, transferred to the R.E. May, 1914, and was killed in action at Doue, France, 7 Sept. 1914, while carrying despatches from General Headquarters to the 2nd Army Corps Signals. The Rev. O. S. Watkins, Wesleyan Chaplain to the Forces, says, in his book “With French in France and Flanders” (pp. 53–55): “I found the brave lad lying in a cottage in the village. Peasants told me that in the darkness he had lost his way, and had actually ridden through two villages occupied by the Germans until he was brought to a stand at Doue with a bullet through his heart. As soon as the Germans retired the villagers had lifted him tenderly into the cottage, straightened the fine young limbs into decent restfulness, and covered him with a clean white sheet. I found him, a bunch of newly gathered flowers on his breast, his face calm and determined, but looking strangely young. He was carried to his last long rest by old men belonging to the village--there were no young men, for all were serving with the Army--and as we passed through the streets women came from the houses and laid flowers upon the bier. Up the steep road we toiled, with many a stop to rest the ancient bearers. Ahead boomed the heavy guns in action, and below we could see the infantry advancing to the attack. At last we reached the hill-top, crowned by its little church and peaceful graveyard. We laid him in his shallow grave, the peasants, with heads uncovered, listening with reverence to the grand words of the Burial Service in a language they did not understand. Before the service was over shrapnel was bursting on the hill, and silently the peasants crept to the wall for shelter, their heads still uncovered. As the final ‘Amen’ fell from my lips, and I stood for a moment looking down on all that was left of that fine young manhood, one of the old men, forgetting his fear of the thundering guns, stepped to the graveside, and, as he cast earth upon the prone body with his hands, with wonderful dignity he addressed the sleeper. As far as I could understand his words he said: ‘You are a brave man and our friend. You have given your life for our country. We thank you. May you sleep well in the earth of beautiful France,’ and the others said ‘Amen.’”
[Illustration: =William Stuart Barnett.=]
=BARNHARDT, FREDERICK JOHN=, Private, No. A 2464, 1st Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest _s._ of William Henry Barnhardt, of P.O. Station, Stratford, Ontario [of a family originally from Germany], by his wife, Ellen, dau. of James Neal, of Bristol; _b._ Norwich, Ontario, Canada, 19 Feb. 1893; educ. West Monkton Public School, Ontario, and the Central Business College, Stratford, Ontario; joined the 34th Battn. of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 18 Jan. 1915, but volunteered for the first special detachment which left Canada on 18 June, arriving in England about 1 July, and was there transferred to the 1st Battn. as grenade thrower. He was killed in action somewhere in Belgium, 28 Nov. 1915, by a rifle grenade. On the night of his death he had specially volunteered to go to the first line trench, and letters from his officers and comrades unite in speaking highly of his work and conduct.
[Illustration: =Frederick John Barnhardt.=]
=BARON, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3201), S.S. 100851, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=BARR, SAMUEL TUDOR=, Lieut., 3rd King’s Own Hussars, only _s._ of Sir James Barr, M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.E., Consulting Physician, Liverpool Royal Infirmary, Lieut.-Col. R.A.M.C., by his wife, Isabella Maria, dau. of John Woolley; _b._ Liverpool, 2 May, 1883; educ. Liverpool College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Hussars, 18 Jan. 1902, and became Lieut. 6 June, 1906; served with his regt. in India and South Africa; came home on leave in Jan. 1909, and while on a holiday in Switzerland met with an accident, falling down a crevasse, from which his father succeeded in extricating him. They afterwards missed their way, were discovered by a search party of Swiss guides the following morning, and brought down in the afternoon. Tudor Barr suffered severely from frost bite and lost all his toes, nevertheless he rejoined his regt. in South Africa towards the latter part of the year, but finding the work too much for him in the then sensitive condition of his feet, he resigned in 1910. He then joined the South Irish Horse, and being a very keen and successful polo player, took a farm and trained polo ponies; this not being a financial success, he retired from the Army in 1912 and went to Rhodesia with the view of settling there. On the outbreak of war he at once came home, travelling 10,000 miles at his own expense. He reached England early in October, at once volunteered, and was gazetted Lieut. 25 Nov. 1914. He was first engaged training cavalry reserves at Shorncliffe, then joined the Reserve of his old regt., the 3rd Hussars, at Rouen, and from there attached to the 20th Hussars then in the trenches. He was killed in action, near Zillebeke, 23 Feb. 1915; _unm._ Col. Kennedy, of the 3rd Hussars, wrote: “In the old days in India, your son was always in my squadron, and he was a capital officer and one who, I am sure, would have been to the fore in this war, had he been spared. It was bad luck that when he came out we were full up with officers, and this is the reason why he volunteered to go temporarily to the 20th Hussars.... You grieve for an only son, and we for a brave and gallant comrade.” And Col. Edwards, of the 20th Hussars: “Your son had been attached to the 20th Hussars for some two months and did excellent work with us. He was a most energetic and keen officer, and had he been spared would, I am sure, have done very well indeed.” Another officer wrote: “A braver soldier or a truer friend never lived.”
[Illustration: =Samuel Tudor Barr.=]
=BARR, THOMAS HENRY=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 11508, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BARRASS, ALFRED LEONARD=, Private, No. 6014, 3rd Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., eldest _s._ of Alfred Barrass, of Hull, Private, 3rd East Yorkshire Regt., by his wife, Gertrude, dau. of William Leonard Brown; _b._ Hull, 15 Sept. 1894; educ. Warnes Street Board School there; enlisted 23 June, 1911; placed on the Reserve, Dec. 1911; called up on the outbreak of war, and transferred to the 1st Battn. at the front. He was killed in action in France, 8 Dec. 1914, being shot by a sniper when fetching water; _unm._
=BARRATT, CHARLES WYLLY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3160), S.S. 100828, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=BARRATT, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9500), S.S. 106889, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BARRATT, PERCIVAL JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7811), S.S. 103275, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BARRETT, CHARLES JOHN CHARD=, Capt., 1st Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, yst. _s._ of the late Major William Barrett, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Charlotte Maria Herring (Moredon, North Curry, Taunton), dau. of William Wheaton Chard, of Mount Tamar, Devon, and nephew of Col. John Rouse Merriott Chard, V.C., R.E., the hero of Rorke’s Drift; _b._ Moredon, North Curry, co. Somerset, 26 Aug. 1873; educ. at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he won the riding prize, “The Saddle.” He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 10 Oct. 1894, becoming Lieut. 12 Nov. 1896, and Capt. 2 May, 1900, and was Adjutant of the 1st Battn. 12 Sept. 1903 to 7 March 1904. He served in the South African war, beginning with the operations in Natal in March, 1900, also in the operations in the Transvaal, the Orange River Colony, and the action of Ruidam. He also raised a company of Mounted Infantry on active service, and gained the Queen’s medal with three clasps. He was Adjutant of the 1st Volunteer Battn. of the Welsh Regt. from Jan. 1905 to 1908. While stationed in Dublin with his regt. in 1909 he won the Irish Grand Military at Punchestown with his horse Scarlet Runner. He had nearly completed four years as an officer of gentlemen cadets at Sandhurst, to which he was appointed, 1 Feb. 1911, and had raised a new company (L Coy.), which he was commanding when he was called to join the 1st Battn. of his regt. at the Front. He was killed in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 14 Nov. 1914, when in temporary command of the battn., and was buried in the grounds of Héronthage Château, Hooge. He was mentioned in Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He _m._ at London, 26 Nov. 1904, Lena, only dau. of the late Albert Vaucamps, of 34, Queen’s Gate. His brother Donald, who was in the same regt., was accidentally drowned, 28 May, 1891, while fishing in the River Dee during the time he was serving on the Queen’s Guard of Honour at Ballater.