Sydney Thompson BARKER

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BARKER, Sydney Thompson

Service Number:	809
Enlisted:	20 September 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	41st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Dale End, Helidon, Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia, 16 March 1893
Home Town:	Helidon, Lockyer Valley, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Hand
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 5 October 1917, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brisbane 41st Battalion Roll of Honour, Citizens of Sandgate Honour Roll, Helidon War Memorial, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Sandgate War Memorial

World War 1 Service

20 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 809, 41st Infantry Battalion
18 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 809, 41st Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: ''
18 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 809, 41st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sydney was the fifth of nine children of Robert Barker (born 1861 in Pickering, Yorkshire, England) and Maria Woodall (born 1859 in Seamer, Yorkshire, England). Robert and Maria married in 1881, and in 1891 the family immigrated to QLD Australia, settling at Helidon on the Darling Downs in QLD where Sydney was born in 1893.

Sydney was working as a Farm Hand in Helidon when he enlsted in the AIF in 1915. He served as a Private (Service No: 09) with 41st Battalion and was KIA at Passchendale Ridge in Belgium in October 1917.

Sydney's brothers - Robert Woodall and Francis Gibson - and brothers -in -law Patrick Stark and Harry St John King also served in WWI

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