Pte 203014 Charles Edward Barker

• Age: 21
• From: Liverpool
• Regiment: The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 19th Btn
• K.I.A Friday 10th May 1918
• Commemorated at: Tyne Cot Memorial
  Panel Ref: Panel 31-34

Charles Edward was born in the September quarter of 1897 at 7 Signal Cottages, Fazakerley to Sandbach born joiner John Thomas Barker and his Standish born wife Ellen (nee Moss). They married in West Derby in the September quarter of 1895 and had 4 boys and 2 girls. Charles Edward was their first born.

He enlisted in Liverpool and was serving in the 19^th Battalion, The King’s Liverpool Regiment as Private No 203014 when he was killed in action on the 10^th May 1918 during the German Spring Offensive.

His body was not recovered from the battlefield, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.

Those United Kingdom and New Zealand servicemen who died after August 16th 1917 are named on the Tyne Cot Memorial, a site which marks the furthest point reached by Commonwealth forces in Belgium until nearly the end of the war.

The Tyne Cot Memorial now bears the names of almost 35,000 officers and men whose graves are not known. The memorial, designed by Sir Herbert Baker with sculpture by Joseph Armitage and F.V. Blundstone, was unveiled by Sir Gilbert Dyett on 20 June 1927.

The memorial forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery, which was established around a captured German blockhouse or pill-box used as an advanced dressing station.

Charles is commemorated on the following Memorials:

Emmanuel Church, Fazakerley 

Longmoor Lane Council School 

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway  

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