Private 20569 James Alfred BARNES

Private 20569 James Alfred Barnes{gallery}Pte J A Barnes{/gallery}8th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
Killed in action in the Battle of Arras, France and Flanders, 3rd May 1917, aged 23

• Commemorated: Arras Memorial, Pas-de-Calais, France. Bay 5
  
• Awarded: British War and Victory Medals
  
• Son of Emma Barnes [now Bennett]
  
• Husband of Elsie Barnes [nee Poole now Saunders]. Married 1914
• NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton Colliery and Nuneaton Other Regiments
  

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Private Barnes
• Arras Memorial
• Leicestershire Regiment

1911 Census and Family History Information

• Born c1894 at Burnley, Lancs
  
• Lived at 9 Stanley Crescent, Abbey Green, Nuneaton [1901] with mother and stepfather, and siblings
  
• Lived at 74 Jodrell Street, Nuneaton [1911]
• Employed as an coal miner at Nuneaton Colliery
  
• Enlisted at Leicester