BARRETT, Cecil Harry

Hautrage Military Cemetery, BelgiumCredit: Unknown

Private
1st Battalion
Dorsetshire Regiment

Cecil was born on the 30th of September 1883 in Ryde to Henry Michael & Emily Jane (nee SYMMONDS) BARRETT. By 1891 the family had moved to Newport & were living at 45 Trafalgar Road.

Cecil, aged 31, was reported as Killed in Action on the 22nd of October 1914 & is buried in the Hautrage Military Cemetery in Belgium beneath a Commission Headstone alongside 252 of his First World War comrades, 60 of whom remain unidentified. Many of those here were buried by the Germans together with over 500 of their war dead.

Cecil is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials. His brother Ernest Boyd also fell in The Great War.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.