Major Julian Sandbach BARKWORTH
B Battery, 167th Battery, Royal Field Artillery

Date of birth: 10th October 1887
Date of death: 9th July 1950

Survived aged 62
Buried at St Mary’s Church, Seavington St Mary, Somerset
Julian Sandbach Barkworth was born in London on the 10th of October 1887 the second son of Major Harold Arthur Sandbach Barkworth, Border Regiment, and Mary Alma (nee Gadesden) Barkworth 33 Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park in London.

He was educated at Hazelwood School until December 1901. On leaving he school the magazine wrote of him: - "...is to be congratulated on his excellent place at Wellington College, Upper II. on the Modern side."

He went on to Wellington College where he was in Mr. Toye’s House from January 1902 to December 1905. He was a member of the Shooting VIII in 1904. In 1906 he passed 31st in the examinations for entry to the Royal Military Academy Woolwich. While at Woolwich he won the “saddle” for his horsemanship as well as the “revolver” for the top score against Sandhurst.

He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery on the 29th of July 1908. He then took a course at Shoeburyness in the September before being posted to his battery in December. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 29th of July 1911 and to Captain on the 30th of October 1914.

He was serving with 95th Battery 19th Brigade Royal Field Artillery at Poona in India on the outbreak of war and returned to England on the 7th of November 1914. On their return 95th Battery was transferred to 167th Brigade as B Battery and left for France with his Brigade from his base at Amesbury at 4pm on the 10th of December 1915. He was posted to 1/4th (Howitzer) London Brigade, Royal Field Artillery on the 14th of February 1916. On the 25th of January 1917 he was promoted to Acting Major while in command of a battery, a rank he relinquished on the 31st of May 1917.

He was married at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Graham Street in London to Janet Katherine (nee Bowles) on the 27th of June 1917, the Bishop of London presiding. They had two sons, John Anthony Sandbach, born on the 10th of May 1923 and Jeremy Mark I'anson, born on the 15th of August 1933.

He was promoted to Major on the 25th of March 1918 and was appointed as Group Commander at the Cadet School at St John’s Wood on the 6th of June 1918; by 1920 he was their Adjutant. He lived at "Traill Stone", Gallows Hill, Taunton and died at Taunton and later at Abbots Barton, Chard in Somerset.

His brother, Captain Humphrey Barkworth 25th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, died of wounds on the 3rd of July 1916. His father, Major Harold Arthur Sandbach Barkworth Border Regiment, died on the 28th of January 1917.
Went on to Wellington College

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