Born: 19 November 1899
Died: 9 November 1918
Buried: Nab Wood Cemetery
Address: Sunnyside, Moorhead, Shipley
Parents: Arthur & Carrie
Spouse:
Siblings: Lucy
Occupation:
Organisations/clubs:
Military
Rank: Sapper
Medals/awards:
Rolls of Honour:
Children:
Regiment: Royal Engineers
Robinson Barker
Robinson Barker was born 19
November 1899 in Shipley the son
of Arthur and Carrie (Caroline)
Barker who in 1901 were living at
20 Victoria Street, Shipley with
Arthur working as an overlooker.
By 1911 the family, now including
a daughter, Lily, had moved to
Shay Lane, Holmfirth and Arthur is
now described as a worsted
manufacturer.
At some stage before 1918 they
moved back to Shipley and settled
at Sunnyside, Moorhead. Arthur
now has a factory in Bradford.
On 15 November 1918 the Shipley
Times & Express reported that just
two days before the end of the war,
Robinson had become a victim of
hte flu pandemic that cost millions
of lives across the world. It is not
clear if he ever saw military action:
“Ill only one day, Sapper Robinson
Barker, Royal Engineers, only son
of Mr and Mrs Arthur Barker of
Sunnyside, Moorhead, Shipley,
died on Saturday at the Hitchin
Military Hospital from pneumonia
following influenza, aged 18.
“The internment took place at Nab
Wood Cemetery yesterday
morning, services being conducted
at the house and at the cemetery
chapel by the Rev Henry Taylor,
Primitive Methodist minister.
“There were present Mr and Mrs
Arthur Barker (father and mother),
Miss Lucy Barker (sister), Mr and
Mrs Robinson Fletcher (uncle and
aunt), Mr John Sugden (cousin),
Miss Carrie Ibbetson (cousin), Mr
and Mrs John Ibbetson (uncle and
aunt), Mrs Henry Hird, Mr and Mrs
James Albert Sugden
(Huddersfield), Mr Clapham, Mr
and Mrs W Firth (Baildon) and
many others.
“The underbearers were
workpeople of A Barker Ltd,
manufacturers, Manchester Road,
Bradford, of which firm Mr Arthur
Barker is principal. The Bradford
Commission Manufacturers’
Association was represented by Mr
Louis Connell.”
