{"id":6577,"date":"2025-04-12T20:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T19:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6577"},"modified":"2025-04-12T20:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T19:49:11","slug":"barratt-a-e-pte-1365-7th-middlesex-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/barratt-a-e-pte-1365-7th-middlesex-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Barratt A E Pte 1365 7th Middlesex Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6578\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Barratt-A-E-Pte-7th-Middlesex-Regiment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6578\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6578\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Barratt-A-E-Pte-7th-Middlesex-Regiment-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Barratt-A-E-Pte-7th-Middlesex-Regiment-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Barratt-A-E-Pte-7th-Middlesex-Regiment.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barratt A E Pte 7th Middlesex Regiment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BARRATT, ALBERT ERNEST, Private, No. 1365, 7th (Territorial) Battn. The Duke of Cambridge&#8217;s Own (Middlesex Regt.), s. of Ernest Barratt, of Tottenham, London, N., by his wife, Caroline, dau. of William Kenny; b. Leicester, 29 April, 1892; educ. Coleraine Park, Tottenham, N., aforesaid; was a Bootmaker; joined the Territorial Force in June, 1911; was mobilized on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 13 March, 1915, and died at Merville Casualty Clearing Station 28 Nov. 1916, from wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle the same day. An officer wrote: &#8220;Of all the men in my platoon, your husband was the most popular.. With a keen sense of duty, he proved himself daily to be one of those heroes whom we cannot afford to lose.&#8221; He m. at Tottenham, N., 1 Feb. 1913, Frances (45, Scales Road, Tottenham, N.), dau. of J. G. Ellis, and had a son, Ernest Albert.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARRATT, ALBERT ERNEST, Private, No. 1365, 7th (Territorial) Battn. The Duke of Cambridge&#8217;s Own (Middlesex Regt.), s. of Ernest Barratt, of Tottenham, London, N., by his wife, Caroline, dau. of William Kenny; b. Leicester, 29 April, 1892; educ. Coleraine Park, Tottenham, N., aforesaid; was a Bootmaker; joined the Territorial Force in June, 1911; was mobilized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middlesex-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577","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=6577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6579,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions\/6579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}