Herbert Straker is remembered on his family's gravestone |
Links:
War Memorials Archive listing
War Memorials Online listing
Photograph by BarnsleyHistorian
Inscription provided by the Barnsley Family History Society
Lives of The First World War
Grave Location and Inscription:
A 2 E 10
In ever loving memory of Kate / the beloved wife of Charles H. Straker / who died Feby 27th 1926 aged 57 years / also of their son Lieut. H Straker (Bert) 5th West Yorks Regt / who died of wounds in Rouen hospital Novr 9th 1918 aged 30 years / for God & country.
Herbert Straker is also remembered on the War Memorial St Johns Church Cudworth and on the Cudworth Memorial Plaque West End Institute and Club St Johns Road
Second Lt. Herbert Straker buried in the St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France and is commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.
BWMP # CDW01/11