PRINCE OF WALES
While researching one of our casualties, surnamed Prince, we came across this appealingly-named
casualty. Listed under "Prince of Wales" on the CWGC
site, he was Private B/321,
serving in the Inland Water Transport service of the Royal
Engineers.
He died on 6th September 1917, and is commemorated on the
Freetown Memorial, in Sierra Leone.
HEADSTONE
Visiting Brandwood End cemetery,
Birmingham, in search of the grave of our casualty Leonard John
"Billy" Bailey, we noticed this unusual headstone.
Shaped in the form of a tree-trunk,
it commemorates Frank Starkey Barnett. He was born on 26th
January 1860 and died on 13th November 1915. Also inscribed
there is the name of his wife, Bertha Barnett (nee Harrison),
born 1st November 1863, and died 28th March 1940.
They married in 1885 in the
Solihull registration district.
