Send a message to the person who requested a photo of the grave monument of Charles Oxtoby Barker with the following comment:
Charles Oxtoby Barker was my great uncle. He died aged 24 in the First World War when he was thrown from a horse, whilst serving as a gunner with the RGA.Gunner Charles Oxtoby, 733, West Riding Heavy battery, (RGA-TF) Royal Garrison Artillery was born in Barkstone Ash in York, and enlisted in York while living in Barkstone Ash. He 'died' at home . This means that as a soldier he was being wounded in action and died 'at home', which can mean in a hospital in England (out of the battle area, in Blighty).The Commonwealth War Graves Commission gives his date of death as 21/2/1916 and Soldiers Died In The Great War gives his date of death as 1/3/1916.