Current Information:

Age-19

Glenorme, Polworth Road, Streatham

Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, France

Alexander Barrett died from unspecified causes on 28th February, 1915, while serving in France.  It is not known if he died from wounds or from illness, both of which took their toll of the men on the Western Front. 

On 7th January, 1915, the 5th London battalion of 11 Brigade of 4th Division took over a new line from the River Warnave to the Estaminet trench, near Ploegsteert, where they remained for the rest of the month and through into February with companies rotating between the front and support lines and billets in reserve.