Sydney George Barnes

College

Shoreditch College

Service number

2738

WW1 rank

Rifleman

"C" Company, London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)

Theatre of war

Europe

Date of death

04 July 1916

Location of death

France

Buried/memorial

Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty

Biography

Rifleman Sydney George Barnes was injured on the 2^nd of July 1916 at Bayencourt near Hebuterne in France. He died two days later on the 4^th. He was 22 and is remembered at Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty.

Sources

Shoreditch College War memorial photograph

Sydney George Barnes, Service number 2738, of the Queen Victoria Rifles, see: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/90747/

London County Council Record of Service