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Personal data

• Name BARNES
• Initials HG
• First name HENRY GORELL
• Place of birth London
• Country England
• Last residence Kensington
• Family 2nd Baron Gorell. Son of Rt. Hon. John Gorell Barnes, 1st Baron Gorell (judge and President of the Probate) and Mary Humpston Mitchell Barnes.
• Education At Summer Fields from 1892 to 1895; at Winchester College from 1895 to 1900; and at Trinity College, Oxford from 1900 to 1903 (BA, 1903; MA, 1908), and at Harvard University (law) from 1903 to 1904
• Profession Baron and Member of the House of Lords
• Extra info The cross of his grave was made of 'great oak beams from the cloisters of Ypres Cathedral'

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 4 August 1914
• Rank Major
• Medals D S O
• Regiment and unit 238th Brigade Royal Field Artillery "B" (19th London) Bty.
• Army - Corps - Division 47th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career From 1914 to 1917 he served as a Captain with 19th Battery, 7th London Bde, RFA (TF); went to front in March 1915.
  DSO (LG 2 Nov 16)
  Mentioned in Despatches.
  Distinguished Service Order for a skillful reconnaissance under heavy fire near High Wood.
  

Death

• Wounded 15 January; Lankhof Farm; Marshall Walk - Verbrandenmolen sector
• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds
• Date of death 16 January 1917
• Died at the age of 35
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery IX - B - 20

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