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Pte. John Barnard
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Stockton on Tees
(d.10th Aug 1916)
John Barnard was born in 1893 in Stockton to Mathew and Margaret Barnard.
On the 1901 Census he is living at 59 Hampton Road,Stockton with his parents and sisters Ann, Elizabeth, Margaret, Mary and Winnie. After leaving school he worked as a Grocer's Apprentice before enlisting in 1915 into the 18th Battalion Durham Light Infantry,service number 18/11.
He died of wounds received on 10th of August 1916 at Serre during the Battle of the Somme and was buried in Oxbridge Lane Cemetery, Stockton.