Jack Harvey Barker

A Second Mate with the mooring vessel Recovery of Leith, Jack died on the 1st January 1943 aged 37.

Jack was born at Kessingland on 27 December 1905, a son of James and Ellen Barker. He was baptised at Saint Edmund’s Church, Kessingland, on 20 April 1911. In 1921 his family lived at London Road, Kessingland. In 1939 Jack’s widowed mother lived at 2 Collins Cottages, High Street, Kessingland.

In 1939 Jack was an Able Seaman with the steam mooring vessel Recovery of Leith at Harwich. From 10 November 1941 Jack served as the Bosun on the Recovery of Leith. 

Jack fell overboard, from his ship, and drowned in the harbour at Milford Haven. He was buried at Saint Edmund’s Churchyard, Kessingland, on 2 February 1943.