Lt Richard Frederick Barlow RFA

 

1887 Jan 4. Born Dublin, Ireland. His father was in the Royal Artillery. Protestant in RIC Register

1896 Entered school at Ipswich

1901 Jan 28. Enlisted in RHA for 12 years

1911 census He is a Trumpeter with G Battery RHA in India

1912 Sep 4. Married in Ipswich to Frances Margarete Rudd

1913 Jan 27. Discharged at the end of his RHA contract

1913 Apr 4. Married Frances Margarite Rudd in Ipswich. He is living at 73 Genestra Rd, Shooters Hill.

1917 Oct 22. Commissioned 2nd Lt

1920 Oct 16. Arrives UK from Mesopotamia. He is an army officer

1921 Apr 15. Enlisted for 90 days emergency service. He was a Private Secretary. He entered as private and emerged 90 days later as RQMS

1921 Jul 7. Discharged from his 90 Day Service

1921 Jun 19. census he is a corporal with A Company, 20th London Defence Battalion, Wimbledon Common

1921 Oct 25. Accepted in England. Joined ADRIC with service no 2115. Posted to A Coy

1922 Jan He appears to have served until demobilisation of ADRIC. He then just disappears. I suspect he abandoned his wife and went overseas, probably changing his name

1939 Register, I cannot find him, but his wife is a schoolmistress living alsone at Shorncliffe Rd, Folkstone

1960 Dec Died Kings Lynn, Norfolk, Ancestry tree based on this burial notice

 

 

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