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Herbert Barnard was born in Beverley on 26 Jul 1898 and baptised at St Nicholas Church on 2 Oct of that year. His father William Barnard was a compositor and printer; his mother was Mary Jane (nee Harper); both were from Beverley. Herbert had three older brothers William, Harold and George Frederick. The latter two worked at Greens of 44 Market Place in Beverley as a stationer’s apprentice and compositor’s apprentice respectively. William was a marine engineer. All served in the war. The family was originally from Beverley but at the turn of the century had spent a time in Holt, Norfolk. On their return to Beverley they lived at 115 Grovehill Road and then at 7 Westwood Road. Herbert had been a member of the Beverley Church Lads’ Brigade.
Herbert served in the Machine Gun Corps as a Private, no 116272. The Beverley Guardian of 4 May 1918 reported that, “he had been gassed by mustard gas” (sic) and had been repatriated to hospital in Leicester.
After the war Herbert moved to the Sowerby Bridge area of West Yorkshire. The 1939 Register describes him as being an “oil extraction blender” living in Pickwood Scar in the town. He married Harriett Lascelles, originally from Lockington in Beverley on the 31 Jul 1927. Her father George Lascelles ran the Grange farm at Aike, near Scorborough. She was one of eight children, one of whom, John Lascelles, of the Inniskilling Fusiliers, had been a POW in Germany, captured on 4 May 1918. The couple had one child, George W Barnard born in 1930. Herbert died in 1973; Harriett in 1984.
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