Private Simeon Barnard
400 Royal Army Medical Corps 2/2nd East Lancs
Drowned on the Royal Edward 13th August 1915, aged 23
Lived at 8 Duckett Street
Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey
Burnley Express 15/9/1915 (P)

He was the son of William Barnard, enlisted at Burnley and was born in Gloucester. Lived in Burnley for the past eleven years at 8 Duckett St. He was employed as a weaver for Messrs Sutcliffe and Clarkson when he enlisted. He was highly popular at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church where he was school organist and a member of the choir. The Burnley News of Saturday September 16th 1915 has a photograph of him shaking hands with Bugler R.Hartley a member of the 2nd/2nd E.L.F.A. who remained in England.