WORLD WAR I

Bingham War Memorial

T 4627 Earlier 33641	Private John Leonard Barrett	Sherwood Foresters [ Notts & Derby Regiment]	born 1894
	Barratt enlisted with the Sherwood Foresters at Newark on 26th November 1915 and was given the service number 33641, later crossed out and replaced with T4627. His record papers used both. He was discharged on the 14th June 1916 as being no longer fit for active service. His service record details his physical and other characteristics as well as his brief period of service. He had a longish period in hospital in Watford but his records suggest his brief period of active service coincided with the Irish nationalists’ Easter Rising. His regiment was sent to Ireland to help deal with the rebellion, instead of to France; it was said with little training or idea of where they were – many of the troops thought they were in France! After discharge he was awarded a gratuity of £15.

	Private John Leonard Barrett
1894	Born Bingham – baptised 9/12/1894
03/06/1891	John senior's first wife, Emma died, possibly in child birth
1893	John Snr married Ruth Parnham, Bingham
Census 1901	Living Fairfield Street, Bingham with Father: John [Barrett], b 1863 Halam, Notts Mother: Ruth, b 1860 Bottesford Siblings: William (half-brother), b 1888 Manthorpe Samuel (half-brother), b Bingham 1889 Walter, b 1891 Bingham Elizabeth, b 1899	Waggoner on farm Agricultural worker
Census 1911	Living in six roomed house on Morris’s Row, Chapel Lane, Bingham with Father John: [Barratt] Mother: Ruth Siblngs: William Henry (half-brother) Samuel (half-brother) Walter Elizabeth, b 1900 Ethel, b 1901 Bingham	Barber’s apprentice Waggoner (?) Painter and paperhanger Farm labourer Baker’s labourer	William Henry killed in WW1
1918	Died in Bingham JAN-MAR, aged 23
1918	Death certificate: John Leonard Barratt died 25th March 1918 in Bingham of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. He was a hairdresser’s assistant, so had returned to his previous trade. Informant was mother R Barratt.