Notes for Thomas Roger Barnes: Born at 32,Mitford Road, Islington. Went to Australia around 1911? Living with a J Kenny NSW when he joined ANZACS in October 1916.Joined up in Cootamutra NSW. Was a horse driver in the 4th div sig coy. Before that he apparently worked on a sheep station and then putting up telegraph poles for the electric company. War records are available. Demobbed in Australia in 1919. I then lose him until he gets married in London in 1923. When he got married on April 21st 1923 he was living at 20 Mitford Road (The same road in which he was born), and employed as a hospital attendant. This could be the same job (Asylum attendant), that he was still doing in 1927 and maybe he didn't own his own business after all. He appears again in 1927 living at 100 truro Road Wood Green working as an Asylum attendant on my fathers birth certificate. This address also appears on his war records in 1927 when a reference is sought to work in the Post Office. Apparently had his own garage business which crashed in the depression in 1926. Joined the London Omnibus Company (now London Transport),as a driver and ended up as a driving instructor at Wood Green Garage Chiswick. In 1930ish he moved to 35 Norman Avenue Wood Green before retiring to Tiptree. Was very much into watches and clocks.
More About Thomas Roger Barnes and Florence May Baker: Marriage: 21 Apr 1923, Church of St Mark, Islington, London.
Children of Thomas Roger Barnes and Florence May Baker are:
Thomas Roger Barnes (b. 29 Sep 1895, d. 20 Jan 1974)
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