Private EDWARD BARBER
Service Number: 15518
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Grenadier Guards
1st Bn.
Date of Death
Died 12 March 1915
Age 22 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Victoria Cross
- Additional Info Son of William and Sarah Ann Barber, of Miswell Lane, Tring, Herts.
- Additional Citation note
An extract from "The London Gazette," dated 19th April, 1915, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery on 12th March, 1915, at Neuve Chapelle. He ran speedily in front of the grenade company to which he belonged, and threw bombs on the enemy with such effect that a very great number of them at once surrendered. When the grenade party reached Pte. Barber they found him quite alone and unsupported, with the enemy surrendering all about him."
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