For Bio: Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.
BARRETT, HUGH HENRY GUY, Private, No. 27589, 15th Battalion (48th King's Canadian Highlanders) 3rd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, elder son of William Henry Barrett, of 127, Kenilworth Court, Putney, by his wife, Florence Annie, daughter of James Redgrove; b. West Dulwich, London, 10 Sept. 1894; educated Lynchmere School, Eastbourne, and Dover College. Being in Canada when war was declared, he volunteered immediately, enlisting at Grimsby, Ontario, 15 Aug. 1914, and came over with the 1st Canadian Contingent. He went through the heavy fighting at Ypres on 22-23 April, 1915, and was mortally wounded on Saturday, 24 April. It was on this occasion that the Germans first used asphyxiating gases which caused the French to retire and left the Canadian left exposed. The 48th suffered very severely. Barrett was removed to No. 13 General Hospital at Boulogne, where he died 27 April; unmarried. He was buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery.
BARRETT, HUGH HENRY GUY, Private, No. 27589, 15th Battalion (48th King's Canadian Highlanders) 3rd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, elder son of William Henry Barrett, of 127, Kenilworth Court, Putney, by his wife, Florence Annie, daughter of James Redgrove; b. West Dulwich, London, 10 Sept. 1894; educated Lynchmere School, Eastbourne, and Dover College. Being in Canada when war was declared, he volunteered immediately, enlisting at Grimsby, Ontario, 15 Aug. 1914, and came over with the 1st Canadian Contingent. He went through the heavy fighting at Ypres on 22-23 April, 1915, and was mortally wounded on Saturday, 24 April. It was on this occasion that the Germans first used asphyxiating gases which caused the French to retire and left the Canadian left exposed. The 48th suffered very severely. Barrett was removed to No. 13 General Hospital at Boulogne, where he died 27 April; unmarried. He was buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery.
For Bio: Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.
BARRETT, HUGH HENRY GUY, Private, No. 27589, 15th Battalion (48th King's Canadian Highlanders) 3rd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, elder son of William Henry Barrett, of 127, Kenilworth Court, Putney, by his wife, Florence Annie, daughter of James Redgrove; b. West Dulwich, London, 10 Sept. 1894; educated Lynchmere School, Eastbourne, and Dover College. Being in Canada when war was declared, he volunteered immediately, enlisting at Grimsby, Ontario, 15 Aug. 1914, and came over with the 1st Canadian Contingent. He went through the heavy fighting at Ypres on 22-23 April, 1915, and was mortally wounded on Saturday, 24 April. It was on this occasion that the Germans first used asphyxiating gases which caused the French to retire and left the Canadian left exposed. The 48th suffered very severely. Barrett was removed to No. 13 General Hospital at Boulogne, where he died 27 April; unmarried. He was buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery.
BARRETT, HUGH HENRY GUY, Private, No. 27589, 15th Battalion (48th King's Canadian Highlanders) 3rd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, elder son of William Henry Barrett, of 127, Kenilworth Court, Putney, by his wife, Florence Annie, daughter of James Redgrove; b. West Dulwich, London, 10 Sept. 1894; educated Lynchmere School, Eastbourne, and Dover College. Being in Canada when war was declared, he volunteered immediately, enlisting at Grimsby, Ontario, 15 Aug. 1914, and came over with the 1st Canadian Contingent. He went through the heavy fighting at Ypres on 22-23 April, 1915, and was mortally wounded on Saturday, 24 April. It was on this occasion that the Germans first used asphyxiating gases which caused the French to retire and left the Canadian left exposed. The 48th suffered very severely. Barrett was removed to No. 13 General Hospital at Boulogne, where he died 27 April; unmarried. He was buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery.
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Private, Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment). Age: 20.
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