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Military service
Service number:
141854
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
20th Bn.
Birth:
September 20, 1896
Paris, Ontario
Enlistment:
August 6, 1915
Niagara, Ontario
Death:
May 12, 1917
France
Burial/memorial information
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Son of Clifford B. Barker and Alice Barker, of Paris, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Earle Victor Barker
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Paris War Memorial
An unveiling and dedication ceremony was conducted at the memorial on November 11th, 1930. The memorial was unveiled by Mrs. R. Baldwin, mother of Nursing Sister Dorothy Baldwin. A dedicatory address was made by Lt.-Col. the Ven. Archdeacon F. G. Scott, D.S.O. (Canon Scott). Bands of the 10th Brant Dragoons and the 1st Dufferin Rifles assisted in the service. The memorial was designed and built by the Hunter Granite Works, Simcoe, Ontario. It is inscribed: 1914 - 1918 / TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF PARIS WHO FELL AND IN HONOUR OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR.<P> The original monument included lamps styled as flames on the posts at either side of the central Cross. An outer pair of monuments were added at a later date in honour of the Paris men who fell in the Second World War. -
Roll of Honour
This Roll of Honour appeared in the pamphlet distributed at the Paris Ontario War Memorial's unveiling and dedication ceremony on November 11th, 1930. -
Memorial
Paris District High School First World War Memorial Plaque Paris Ontario -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Brantford Expositor 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Earle Victor Barker
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Earle Victor Barker
Digital gallery of
Private Earle Victor Barker
Digital gallery of
Private Earle Victor Barker
Digital gallery of
Private Earle Victor Barker
Digital gallery of
Private Earle Victor Barker
Digital gallery of
Private Earle Victor Barker
Digital gallery of
Private Earle Victor Barker
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 196 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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