BARROW Howard Cyril Lieut

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Surname: BARROW;

Forename(s): Howard Cyril;

Initials: HC;

Rank: Lieut;

Previous Regiment: York & Lanc Regt;

Date of transfer to MGC: 15-May-1916;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 64 Coy;

How killed: KIA;

Where: Belgium;

When killed: 20-Sep-1917;

Other Data: born 10/6/1894 at 46 Beacon Rd, Loughborough. Father George Richardson Barrow. Mother Sarah Caroline Barrow. Brother Gerald Barrow all of 115 Gregory St, Loughborough. Casualty Form: 21/9/16 to join BEF France, 15/10/16 to 64 MG Coy. 30/9/16 Hospital Camiers NYD. To Hospital le Havre. To 24 Gen Hosp NYD. 29/1/1917 39 Gen Hosp NYD le Havre. 9/3/1917 Hospital - measles. 20/3/17 to duty in the field. 24/3/17 to base depot. 31/3/17 to rejoin 64 Coy. 31/3/17 joined from base. 22/6/17 to be T/Lt. 28/9/17 KIA.
Letter from Miss Effie Price, Inglenook, Trendon Rise, The Wells Rd, Nottingham to War Office 22/12/17 " I have not heard from…….for a month or so………"
photo: GS Archives
News has been received by Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Barrow of Gregory
Street, Loughborough, that their eldest son, Lieut. Howard Cyril
Barrow, of the York and Lancaster Regiment, had been killed in action
on September 20. Lieut. Barrow, who was 23 years old, obtained his
commission in October 1915, joining from the Barnsley Branch of
Messrs. Barclay and Co.'s Bank. He became attached to a Machine
Gun Corps, and was given charge of a battery, and had been abroad
over a year. The letter conveying the sad news came from the O.C.
and said,^ "Your son fell nobly doing his duty, and I am sure he would
not have wished to die better. Up to the very last moment he was
encouraging his men on in their duties, and by his personal courage
encouraging his men on in their duties, and by his personal courage
he was a great example to his men. Please accept on my own behalf,
and on behalf of all his brother officers, who deeply regret his loss, our
most deep sympathy. He was well-liked by his men, who in losing him
have lost a good comrade in danger.";

Other Notes: BARROW, Lieutenant, HOWARD CYRIL, Machine Gun Corps. 20th September 1917. Age 23. Son of George Richardson Barrow and Sarah Caroline Barrow, of 11, Gregory St., Loughborough, Leicestershire. Panel 154 to 159 Tyne Cot Memorial - Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.;

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Related National Archives files: WO339/43402:;

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