Lance Corporal Alfred Barker, Service Number 40302

Lance Corporal Alfred Barker, Service Number 40302

2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, formerly 3886 Cambridgeshire Regiment

Enlisted for the 3rd/1st Cambridgeshire Regiment in June 1915

Died 4th March 1917, aged 29

Thiepval Memorial, France

Pier and Face C (Reg. MR21) Part 3

Son of John and Rebecca Barker, 28 Orchard Road, Sawston

He was a stretcher bearer and, with his opposite number, had just brought in a casualty when a shell exploded close by which proved fatal. “As always” said his CO “he did his job fearlessly”.

For many years he drove one of Crampton’s oil vans.