Arthur John Barnes

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

406048

Unit at enlistment:

36th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Cemetery:

Farringdon Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Greater London

Birth city:

London, Middlesex

Address at enlistment:

Echo Place P.O., Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

Echo Place P.O., Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Carpenter

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

BX July 27, 1917

A.J. Barnes Invalided Home

With only his wife and five children at the station to welcome him, Private A.J. Barnes slipped back in the city yesterday, having been sent home from the front. Pte. Barnes who left Canada with the 36th Battalion, transferred to the First Field Company Canadian Engineers. He has been through the Battle of Messines in 1915; Ypres and Vimy Ridge this year. At [?] he was wounded by shrapnel in the right leg and taken to France where he recovered. He went back and was shell shocked at Ypres. His home is in Echo Place and he was formerly employed at the Massey-Harris Company. Private Barnes came directly home from Quebec and the Soldiers’ Aid Commission was not notified of his coming, so there was no reception.

BX July 8, 1946

Arthur J. Barnes

The death occurred yesterday afternoon in the Brantford General Hospital of Arthur John Barnes, 178 Sheridan Street. Mr. Barnes was born in England sixty-seven ago and came to Canada thirty-four years ago. Apart from the time he served in the army in the First Great War, he was a continuous resident of this City since that time. He enlisted with the Thirty-Sixth Battalion of the First Field Company, Canadian Expeditionary Force, at the beginning of the First Great War and served throughout the war. He was the possessor the Mons Star, and the Service and Victory Medals. Mr. Barnes was a member of St. Jude’s Anglican Church, the Canadian Legion and Salisbury Lodge, S.O.E. Surviving are his widow, the former Ada Waring, four daughters, Mrs. Winnifred Thompson, Brantford, Mrs. Gordon McConnell, Batavia, N.Y., Mrs. Gordon Luff, Cainsville, and Mrs. Mae Hughes, Brantford; sixteen grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Charles Sowden, and Mrs. Rose Richardson, both of England. Mr. Barnes is resting at the Beckett Funeral Home for funeral Wednesday afternoon, and interment in Farringdon Burial Ground.

BX July 11, 1946

Arthur John Barnes

The funeral of Arthur John Barnes was conducted yesterday afternoon from the Beckett Funeral Home to Farringdon Burial Ground. Rev. F.W. Schaffter, Rector of St. Jude’s Anglican Church, officiated. Attending the services were delegations from the Canadian Legion, in charge of E.R. Edwards, and the Sons of England. The pallbearers, all Legionnaires, were G. Gaydon, D. Monkman, G.T. Truckle, W. Cellar, G. Godfrey, A. Mattice, F. Marks and A. Thompson. Legion honors were tendered the deceased at the burial ground.