George Robert Barnatt was born in May 1885 in Gosberton, Lincolnshire, England. He was the eldest child of William and Florence Alice Barnatt’s.
George was 5 feet 7 inches, 144 pounds (170.2cm, 65.3kg) and had blue eys, light brown hair and a fresh complexion.
George migrated to Australia in 1912 with his sister Rose and her husband Tom Senior and lived near Healesville, Victoria where he worked as a farm labourer.
George and Tom both enlisted on the 5th July 1915 and were both assigned to 29th Battalion, D Company. Tom survived the battle and eventually returned to Australia.
George’s brother Walter was killed in action 4 months after George on the Somme. Walter was in the Royal Field Artillery, 49th West Riding Division. Another brother Arthur was in the Northumberland Fusiliers and returned back to England.
Both George and Walter are commemorated at the St Thomas Church in Wincobank, Sheffield, which is near their family’s home.
George becomes the 6th of 8 known soldiers from the 29th Battalion with the handwritten note on their file referencing Map N22 to have been at Pheasant Wood, including Ernest Frank Wilkin 1314, Gordon Thomas Smith 1245, James Hugh Ross 1215, Thomas William Francis 2584, and David Frederick Livingston 1168.
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