Arthur Barber

A Deck Hand with H.M.S. Ceto, Arthur died on 16th of November 1918 aged 25. 

Arthur was born at Pakefield on 23 April 1893, a son of Arthur and Alice Barber. In 1901 his family lived at Main Road, Carlton Colville. By 1911 they were living at Bridge Road, Oulton Broad, and Arthur was a fisherman. 

On 28 November 1914 Arthur married Eva Violet Baldry at Saint Peter’s Church, Carlton Colville. Arthur was a fisherman and they both lived at Oulton Broad.  

In 1915 they lived at 82 Milton Road, and by 1918 Eva was living at Saint Mark’s Cottages, Oulton Broad. Later she lived at 8 Khartoum Cottages, Beccles Road, Carlton Colville, and then at Nelson House, Victoria Road, Oulton Broad.

Arthur joined the Royal Naval Reserve on 27 July 1915 and served on the trawler Contrive. In 1917 he was Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 20 July 1917, for his conduct when ‘in action with enemy submarines’. On 13 January 1918 he joined the trawler R.R.S., which was assigned to the Auxiliary Patrol Depot ship H.M.S. Ceto at Ramsgate.

Arthur died at the Sick Quarters, 1 Royal Crescent, Ramsgate, from pneumonia following influenza and was buried at Carlton Colville on 22 November 1918. 

He is mentioned on Saint Margaret's War Memorial.