Peter BARKER [673]

  General Notes:

Peter was an engineer he served in WWI (was gassed in France 1916 - the date of this piece of family lore conflicts with his war record below)
He married Flo, and had one son, Peter.

Full Name Peter Barker
Forename(s) Peter
Surname Barker
War World War I, 1914-1918
Serial No. 75551
First Known Rank Lance Corporal
Occupation before Enlistment Engineer
Next of Kin Mrs A.O. Barker (mother), White's Line East, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Body on Embarkation New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Embarkation Unit 39th Reinforcements A Company
Embarkation Date 13 June 1918
Place of Embarkation Wellington, New Zealand
Transport HMNZT 106
Vessel Athenic
Destination Liverpool, England
Nominal Roll Number 85
Page on Nominal Roll 2
Sources Used Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume IV. Wellington: Govt. Printer, 1919
http://muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases

Peter was buried 10 Nov 1924 aged 31 at Karori Cemetery Wellington.
Ref: http://www.wellington.govt.nz/services/cemeteries

Peter married Florence Elizabeth APPERLEY [2243] [MRIN: 733], daughter of Henry Walter Jacob APPERLEY [35098] and Edna Alice Robins BOON [35099], in 1921 in New Zealand. (Florence Elizabeth APPERLEY [2243] was born in 1891 in St George Bristol GLS and died on 4 Nov 1959 in Wellington N.Z..)