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Re: Albert Barber

No - I am afraid the Uniform does not appear to be "military". It looks like it was taken after the war by the age of Albert. He may have had a job or membership of a civilian organisation that required uniform, but he definitely has a full WW1 ribbon.

His children are now all dead and his granddaughter does not know much about Albert as he died when she was a child.

Albert lost his brother Ernest in France in 1917 and another brother George when HMV Natal blew up whilst docked in the Cromaty Firth in 1915.

You mention Local Media - is this a newspaper report? If so could you please copy it and then I can send it to the family. (They are distant cousins of my husband)

Many Thanks

Sara Cox

Re: Albert Barber

The war certainly had a profound effect in that family. I only have an index of names that appeared in casualty lists in the Kentish Express and Ashford News, not the original newspapers I'm afraid. They were just lists of names in any case and wouldn't help any further with your research

Mick Mills