Private 1715 David Barwell
Regiment/Unit: 3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales' Own) -
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Theatre of War First Served: France & Flanders
Date Entered Therein: 16/08/1914
Age at death: 25
Date of death: 30th of October 1914
(Friday)
Born: Leicester
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Ypres Menin Gate Memorial - Panel 3
BMD details:
Marriage: 03/11/1913 David BARWELL to Charlotte Emily BRATLEY at Eccleston Christ Church CE
Family details:
Son of David and Agnes Barwell; husband of Charlotte Emily Barwell, of 45, Walton St., Narborough Rd., Leicester
Wife Charlotte is legatee.
Census details:
1891 - 3 years old David is living at 115 Syston Street, Leicester with parents David (31), Agnes L (29) and four siblings: Arthur (9), Violet (7), Bertie (5), Thomas W (1).
1901 - 13 years old 'Office Boy' David is living at 115 Syston Street, Leicester with widowed mother Agnes Louisa (40) and four siblings: Arthur (19), Violet (17), Bertie (15), Thomas (11).
Also at the address are boarders Emma Stevens (29) and Elsie M Stevens (14).
1911 - The 3rd Dragoon Guards, including 23 year old Private David Barwell, were based in Aldershot.
Notes:
The only link between David Barwell lies in the record of his marriage which shows that on 03/11/1913, David Barwell married Charlotte Emily Bratley a Eccleston Christ Church CE.
Charlotte, like David, is a native of Leicester and the 1911 census shows her working as a Clerk in Boston, Lincs.
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/DavidBarwell.jpg[/pic][caption]Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929[/caption]
[pic]imgs/WW1_memorials/D_Barwell-J_Thompson.jpg[/pic][caption]The inscription for Private David Barwell on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
(Photograph courtesy of [url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1966751]Find A Grave[/url])[/caption]
SHROH ref. 126