Private 10195 John BARNES

Private 10195 John Barnes{gallery}Pte J Barnes{/gallery}3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards
Died of wounds at No 5 Casualty Clearing Station, sustained at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, 18 Sep 1916, aged about 21

• Buried: Corbie Communal Cemetery Ext, Somme, France. Grave 2.E.20
  
• Awarded: 1914 Star with Clasp, British War and Victory Medals
• Son of Emma Barnes [now Salisbury Bennett]
  
• NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments | Queen’s Road School | Nuneaton Colliery

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Pte Barnes
• Corbie Communal Cemetery Ext
• Coldstream Guards

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born c1895 at Burnley, Lancs
• Attended Queen’s Road School
  
• Lived at 74 Jodrell Street, Nuneaton with his mother and her second husband, so John noted as stepson [1911]
• Employed as a coal miner at Nuneaton Collieries [1911]
  
• Enlisted at Nuneaton. Arrived in France 26 Aug 1914