1427 2nd Air Mechanic Edmund James Lee Barker, Australian Flying Corps, 8th Reinforcements.
A group of Australian Flying Corps men awaiting embarkation.
Image courtesy AWM. Image C03972.
When
he enlisted in the Australian Flying Corps on 5 January 1917 as a 30 year old
married man, Edmund Barker had already experienced life at sea. He had served
18 months in the Royal Navy and been invalided out in 1904 when he was only 17.
His attestation papers give no indication of his illness or condition, but 13
years later he was considered fit enough to head over to Europe to fight the
Germans.
He
and his wife Julia Campbell Skinner, whom he married in 1911, are recorded as
living at 9 Davis Street, South Yarra at the time of his enlistment but on his
return he set up an electrical contractor's business in Sydney Road, Coburg. He
died at Coburg East in 1948 aged 61.
Sources include: Attestation papers, National Archives
of Australia; Victorian Marriage Index, 1911/6359; 1919 electoral roll;
Victorian Death Index, 1948/2559.
Group of Royal Flying Corps and Australian Flying Corps
mechanics outside a workshop.
Image courtesy AWM. Image C03725.
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