Today we remember …
29th April, 1917
Barham Middleton, B Social 1899. Lance-Corporal, 22nd Bn, Royal Fusiliers. Killed in action, Battle of Arras. After school, he studied at the Agricultural Department at Reading University, then worked as a dairy farmer in Surrey. He signed up and served in the ranks of the Universities and Public Schools Battalion, Royal Fusiliers in 1914. He was killed in the Battle of Arras but has no grave, so is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. Aged 35 |