| Regimental number | 1477 |
| Place of birth | Durham, England |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Occupation | Miner |
| Address | Abermain PO, Abermain, New South Wales |
| Marital status | Married |
| Age at embarkation | 45 |
| Next of kin | Wife, Mrs James Barker, Abermain PO, Abermain, New South Wales |
| Enlistment date | |
| Place of enlistment | West Maitland, New South Wales |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 34th Battalion, Headquarters |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/51/1 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A20 Hororata on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 34th Battalion |
| Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | Enlisted 4 January 1916. Taken on strength, 34th Bn, 14 February 1916. Transferred to 9th Brigade HQ, 7 November 1916. Rejoined 34th Bn, 6 April 1917. |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Date of death | |
| Age at death | 46 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 123 |
| Family/military connections | Son: 2534 Pte John Albert BARKER, 35th Bn, killed in action, Messines, 7 June 1917. |
| Other details |
War service: Western Front Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal True age at death: 54 years 6 months. |
Postal Address:
Po Box 7916
Canberra BC 2610, Australia
Street Address:
Northcott Drive,
Campbell, ACT 2600
