George Edward Barber

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Grave/Memorial:  		Barber, George E

1899, Herne Hill, London

Lionel and Lily (née Bowen)

1st Battalion, The Grenadier Guards

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2nd Lieutenant

24 August 1918, France, age 19

Croisilles British Cemetery,
Pas de Calais, France: III. E. 32
  
Biography:
George Edward Barber was born in Herne Hill, London in 1899. He was the elder of two sons of Lionel, a surveyor, and Lily (née
Bowen). Lionel and his family moved to Hook Heath, Woking, in 1911.

George was educated at Repton School and then attended the Household Brigade Cadet College at Bushey. In February 1918, aged 18, he
was gazetted a second lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards.

George Edward Barber was killed on 24 August 1918 during the British counter-attack in the Second Battle of the Somme. He is buried in
the Croisilles British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.



The 7th Division attacked Croisilles in March 1917 and took it on 2 April. It was lost on 21 March 1918 and
recaptured by the 56th (London) Division on the following 28 August, after heavy fighting.

Plots I and II of the cemetery, were made between April 1917 and March 1918 and the rest was formed
after the Armistice, when graves were transferred from the neighbouring battlefields.

The majority of the soldiers buried in the cemetery belonged to the Guards, 7th and 21st Divisions. Croisilles
British Cemetery now contains 1,171 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War.
647 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 14 casualties buried among them.