Notes
The Roll lists his address as Hall Lane, Werrington.
(CWGC records that Private Robert Barnes of the 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, regimental number 17216, died on 25/3/1918; he is commemorated on Pozieres Memorial in France. They list no next of kin or address for him. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects records that Robert's widow Edith A Barnes was his legatee. When his death at the age of 36 was announced on 27/4/1918 in the Peterborough Advertiser, it was reported that his widow lived in Hall Lane, Werrington. She had received a letter from his Company officer, stating Robert had been acting as a runner when he was hit by a sniper's bullet and killed instantly. He was reported to have completed nearly three years' continuous service in France, and to have formerly worked for Messrs Brotherhood).