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Remembered Today:

Pte Arthur Thomas Barrett 219 Coy Labour Corps


Will O'Brien

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As per CWGC

Name: BARRETT

Initials: A T

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment: Northamptonshire Regiment

Unit Text: 6th Bn.

Secondary Regiment: Labour Corps

Secondary Unit Text: transf. to (363786) 219th Coy.

Date of Death: 24/11/1917

Service No: 18925

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: II. B. 16.

Cemetery: BLEUET FARM CEMETERY

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& the cemetery info

Cemetery: BLEUET FARM CEMETERY

Country: Belgium

Locality: Ieper, West-Vlaanderen

Location Information: The cemetery is located to the north west of the town of Ieper near a village called Elverdinge, this is on the N8 road between Ieper and Veurne, 3 kilometres from Ieper. Driving into the village from Ieper go to the traffic lights and turn right, this street is called Steenstraat, and after 50 metres follow the street to the right, called Boezingsestraat. The cemetery is 500 metres along this street on the left hand side.

Historical Information: Bleuet Farm was used as a dressing station during 1917 Allied offensive on this front. The cemetery was begun in a corner of the farm and was in use from June to December 1917, though a few of the burials are of later date. Two graves were brought into the cemetery after the Armistice from isolated positions close by. There are now 442 First World War burials in the cemetery and nine from the Second World War, all dating from the Allied retreat to Dunkirk in May 1940. The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.

No. of Identified Casualties: 451

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Arthur Barrett's online MIC index entry can be seen here

Note the typographical error when putting his entry together - they have his name as Arthur J. Barrett rather than Arthur T.

I have sent the NA/PRO an email highlighting this to them ;)

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  • 4 weeks later...
Note the typographical error when putting his entry together - they have his name as Arthur J. Barrett rather than Arthur T.

I have sent the NA/PRO an email highlighting this to them ;)

Just as an update to this, I received the following email from the PRO/NA Documents online people today

Thank you for your email. Please accept our apologies for the delay in

responding to your query.

The entry for Arthur J Barrett has now been amended to read Arthur T

Barrett. The change should appear on the DocumentsOnline website as of

tomorrow. Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention.

If you have any further problems please don't hesitate to contact us.

Yours sincerely

DocumentsOnline Support Team

Nice that they took notice :D

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