13501 Pte Archibald Southwell Barnes of the 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment was killed in action on this day, 25th August, 1915. Soldiers Died in The Great War notes that he was born in Ramsey St Mary's, Huntingdonshire and was living there when he enlisted. He joined up at Huntingdon.
Archibald's number indicates that he enlisted for wartime service only in the first week of September 1914. His medal index card indicates that he arrived in France on 1st April 1915.
Archibald Barnes is buried at Brown's Road Military Cemetery in Fetsubert; grave reference I.D.11.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Inter-war photograph of Brown's Road Military Cemetery from Alan Jennings's WW1 Battlefields' page on Festubert.
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