Can anyone add any more information for me? Casualty BARNES, ELIZABETH LOUISA Age: 24 Date of Death: 10/07/1945 Private. Auxiliary Territorial Service. Service Number: W/212238. Buried: MIDSOMER NORTON (ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST) CHURCH CEMETERY Plot 3. Row 11. Grave 26. Daughter of Frank and Gertrude Lily Barnes, of Westfield. [Not Named on the Westfield Memorial] By July 1945, the War in Europe was over. Possibly illness or a road traffic accident? Midsomer Norton doesn't seem to have a hospital, perhaps an ATS base there? Strange that she wasn't brought home for burial in Sussex. Thanks for any additional information
UK, Army Roll of Honour, 1939-1945 Name: Elizabeth Barnes Given Initials: E L Rank: Private Death Date: 10 Jul 1945 Number: 212238 Birth Place: Bristol Residence: Bath Branch at Enlistment: Women's Services Theatre of War: United Kingdom Regiment at Death: Auxiliary Territorial Service Branch at Death: Women's Services Family Tree details: Name Elizabeth Louisa BARNES Father Frank BARNES Mother Gertrude Lily CLEMENTS Birth 09/1921 Midsomer Norton Somerset England Death 10/07/1945 Bristol Gloucestershire England Residence 1941 Bath Somerset England TD
Well as you know unless Guy can find a newspaper cutting DC is the way to go. TD info shows the family connection to Midsomer Norton
Seems a native of Westfield, Somerset, and buried not far away in Bath. Remembered on the War memorial at Radstock, Somerset. 1939-1945 BARNES E.L. (Miss) Radstock Westfield was a mining village on the Somerset Coalfields & until 2011 when it became a separate parish was part of Radstock Norton Parish. It did not have a C of E church until 1988.
Thanks. Stand down, all. I think I made a mistake in assuming it was in East Sussex, when there is obviously a Westfield in Somerset (well a Trading Estate nearby. From the above information so kindly found, there isn't any connection to East Sussex. I thought that as there was a Barnes family in Westfield, then there was a potential connection. Oops!
Ha ha Kevin We have all been there but as ever interesting none the less TD highlighted her dc is not available so we can get that corrected
Just to add to the Westfield connection: 1939 Register for 24 Bryant Avenue, Westfield, Norton Radstock UD, Somerset. BARNES Frank, born 28 Oct 1889, marr, builders bricklayer BARNES Gertrude, born 14 Jan 1891, marr, unpaid domestic duties retracted record BARNES Maurice, born 25 July 1925, single, apprentice joiner BARNES (later COLEMAN) Mary/Joan M., born 9th July 1928, at school BARNES (later HAND) Sheila, 6th April 1931, at school retracted record