{"id":6477,"date":"2025-04-06T20:42:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6477"},"modified":"2025-04-06T20:42:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:42:57","slug":"barber-c-a-lt-1st-r-m-bn-r-n-div-royal-marine-light-infantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/barber-c-a-lt-1st-r-m-bn-r-n-div-royal-marine-light-infantry\/","title":{"rendered":"Barber C A Lt 1st R.M Bn R.N Div Royal Marine Light Infantry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BARBER, CHARLES ASSHETON, Lieut., Royal Marine Light Infantry, 2nd 8. of Thomas Richard Barber, of Tatton View, Withington, Manchester, by his wife, Ada, dau. of Thomas Kinder; b. Fallowfield, Manchester, 13 Oct. 1894; educ. Ducie Avenue Higher Elementary Schools, Whitworth Park; joined the Plymouth Section, Royal Marines, 28 Sept. 1914; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli from the following April, 1915; was invalided to England in Oct., and on recovery appointed to patrol duty on one of H.M. Cruisers off the American coast; returned to England in March, 1917, and after a period of training at Aldershot, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Marine Light Infantry 26 Sept. of the same year; served with the Expedition-ary Force in France and Flanders from April, 1918, and was killed in action near Achiet-le-Grand 21 Aug. following. Buried there. Lieut. Barber was keenly interested in the Scout movement, and was scoutmaster of the Platt, Rusholme, Manchester, Troop; unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARBER, CHARLES ASSHETON, Lieut., Royal Marine Light Infantry, 2nd 8. of Thomas Richard Barber, of Tatton View, Withington, Manchester, by his wife, Ada, dau. of Thomas Kinder; b. Fallowfield, Manchester, 13 Oct. 1894; educ. Ducie Avenue Higher Elementary Schools, Whitworth Park; joined the Plymouth Section, Royal Marines, 28 Sept. 1914; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-marine-light-infantry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6478,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6477\/revisions\/6478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}