Samuel Douglas Barr

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

270013

Unit at enlistment:

215th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario

Birth country:

Ireland

Birth county:

Armagh

Birth city:

Tandragee

Address at enlistment:

121 Pearl Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

121 Pearl Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Constable

Employer:

Brantford Police Department

Religious denominations:

Presbyterian

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

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Miscellaneous

BX March 8, 1916

Orderly to Kitchener Enlisted

As one of its first recruits for the new 215th Battalion will have a man who for 10 months was orderly to Field Marshal Kitchener during the Sudan War. The man is question is Constable John Borthwick, who, with two of his fellow policemen, Douglas Barr and Alex Stewart, are enlisting with the 215th Battalion which will start recruiting tomorrow.

Constable Borthwick has been on the local police force for over eight years. He is a Scotchman and married. He has had three years’ service with the Grenadier Guards and two years with the West Lothian Constabulary.

Constable Barr has only been connected with the Brantford Police Force for a little over a year. He is an Irishman and married. For three years he was connected with the Territorial’s.

Before coming to Canada P.C. Samuel Douglas Barr was a well known athlete, playing for several years on the Irish International football team, touring the British Isles with them.

For nearly five years Constable Stewart has been on the local force. He is also a married man and Scotch. He has had five years’ service with the Fifeshire Constabulary.

These three policemen were given leave of absence by the police commission yesterday. They will make 10 men that have gone. All the first seven were Englishmen, and it will be seen that the present three are Scotch and Irish. The whole of the ten policemen who have gone to fight for their Motherland are married men.

BX August 14, 1933

Samuel Douglas Barr

The death occurred here yesterday, in the Brantford General Hospital, of S. Douglas Barr in his 47th year. The funeral will be conducted on Tuesday, from his late residence, 27 Elgin Street, thence to St. Luke’s church, where public service will be held, followed by interment in Mount Hope cemetery. The late Mr. Barr was well known here, having been at one time a member of the Brantford police force. He served overseas during the war, going from Brantford with the 215th Battalion. He was a member of Branch No. 90, Canadian Legion. To mourn his loss he leaves his widow, one son, Cecil, and one daughter, Margaret.

BX August 19, 1933

S. Douglas Barr

The funeral of S. Douglas Barr was conducted yesterday from the residence, 27 Elgin Street, to St. Luke’s Anglican Church, where service was in charge of Rev. F.W. Schaffter, St. Jude’s Anglican Church. There was a large attendance and a profusion of flowers, testifying to the esteem in which the deceased was held. At the graveside Last Post was sounded by Buglers Jack Fossey and Jack Taylor, members of the Canadian Legion, and the pallbearers, also members of the Canadian Legion were: S. Cara, A. Sawkins, B. Leishman, W. Hall, T. Tyrrell and D. Miller.