Samuel Barnett

[coralreef]

I would like to have any information on Samuel Barnett born 1890 at Child's Recall Shropshire he was in the 1914_1918 war I believe he was a prisoner of that war thanks for any information

[CaroleW]

Hi

Can you be more specific about the type of information you are asking for?

Are you looking for his ancestry or his WW1 service or his life after the war - or all 3?

Can you also include any information you already have to avoid duplication and to help us in any search

[CaroleW]

1891 has Samuel Barnett 5 months old b Ercall - parents Samuel & Eliza

Please tell us if you already have census info to avoid duplication of efforts

[MaxD]

Still at home 1911 if this is he at Ercall.  No Samuel Barnetts in the POW list as far as I can see.

[MikeDavies38]

A Samuel Barnett, born 26 October 1890 was living in Drayton, Shropshire in 1939 with his wife, Nellie.  He was an assistant to his wife who was a grocer and sub post mistress.  Don't know if this was the right person but a Samuel Barnet married Nellie Dodd in 1920 in Market Drayton.  In 1911, Nellie Dodd was an assistant in a post office in Child Ercall.

[Mabel Bagshawe]

1901 find Samuel Barnet (as transcribed on ancestry) with his paternal grandparents Andrew and Ann  and another of their grandchildren Rhoda , aged 15

RG13, 2560, 52, 9

[coralreef]

Thank you for your information if anything is known about his war records I would like to confirm if he was a prisoner I have found his census thanks

[MaxD]

The International Committee of the Red Cross database of POWs of the Great War is at http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Search/#/3/2/107/0/British%20and%20Commonwealth/Military/barnett%20samuel (this is the link to the search for Barnett Samuel).  No record there, I have tried other spellings without success.

As far as service records are concerned:

I can find no records in the name of Samuel Barnett that can be identified as the Shopshire man (you may know that some 70% of Great War service records were destroyed in a bombing raid in the Second War).

There are some 44 Samuel Barnett medal cards but these records have no personal information so cannot, without a service number and/or regiment, be tied to your man.

Are there any other possible clues in the family, photographs, family stories with dates, memorabilia etc that might help?

maxD

[coralreef]

I have had some information from a member of my husbands family I believe there is a plack in the Child's Ercall Church with his name saying he was a prisoner of war thank you for all your information Coralreef