This name is on the St Andrew's War Memorial
Service no 2923
Serjeant, East Surrey Regiment, 9th Battalion
Died age 20 on 2 August 1917
Son of Alfred and Harriet Barker, of 61, Chelsham Rd., Clapham, London.
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 the Barkers were living in 5 rooms at 6 High Street, Clapham. Alfred Barker, 46, was a cook and carver in a ham and beef shop (the family appear to have live above the shop). He was born in Hornsey. His wife, Harriet, 47, had no occupation outside the house. She was born in Clerkenwell. The couple had been married 20 years. Three children were on the 1911 census:
Harriet Barker, 17, an indexing clerk working in the export of patent medicine, born in Clerkenwell
Edward James, 14, at school, born in Brixton
Miriam Nellie, 11, at school, born in Brixton Hill