Captain Herbert Walter Barnett was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1879, the son of umbrella manufacturer Maurice and Marie Barnett (née Sternberg), of London and Belgium, respectively. He studied at University College before entering the stock exchange, at the age of twenty, and soon afterwards became a junior partner in Bensinger and Co. He was commissioned in 1907, as a second lieutenant in the 4th Middlesex Regiment.[1]
With his battalion, Barnett went to the Western Front in November 1914. He died on 9 May 1915, one of many casualties sustained by the Middlesex in the attack on Aubers Ridge. His brother, Gerald, a second lieutenant with the Royal Scots, was killed five months later.[1]
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Ploegsteert Memorial.
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- Ancestry.co.uk.
- Barnett, Herbert Walter, cwgc.org. Retrieved 13 February 2015.