David Barnaby
Rank: Private First Class, U.S. Army
Unit: Battery F, 76th Field Artillery
Entered service from: New Jersey
Died:
Buried at: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Market Street, Gloucester City, New Jersey
David Barnaby’s grave at Cedar Grove Cemetery, Gloucester City, New Jersey.
Private David Barnaby was born in October of 1894 to Henry and Rebecca Barnaby. He lived most of his life in Gloucester City, where his family belonged to the First Presbyterian Church at 301 Monmouth Street. He enlisted in the United States Army on May 15, 1917 at Fort Slocum, New York.
Private Barnaby was fatally injured when he was kicked by a horse over the right eye near Hausen, Germany, on February 2, 1919, at the age of 23. He was a member of Battery F, 76th Field Artillery, in the Army of Occupation, and was sent on a detail for horses to Hausen. On the return, Barnaby asked permission to fall out to adjust his saddle. The detail had gone but one hundred yards when a Corporal Hayes saw him fall. When the detail reached Barnaby they found him badly injured, and he was taken to the hospital at Mayen, Germany, where he died on February 5th. He was the son of Henry and Rebecca Barnaby, of 521 Hunter Street, Gloucester City.
Rebecca Barnaby was active in the Gold Star Mothers for many years after the war.
Honor Roll Card
Camden County World War I Honor Roll card for David Barnaby.
Gold Star Mother Bows in Prayer
Camden Courier-Post —
MRS. REBECCA BARNABY, Gold Star Mother, and Harry J. Stone, disabled veteran, are pictured as they stood solemnly during a dedication prayer following unveiling of monument to War I heroes at Armistice Day ceremonies on Roosevelt Plaza yesterday.
Veterans at Gloucester Will Decorate Six Trees
Camden Courier-Post —
Gloucester Post No. 135, American Legion, and auxiliary, assisted by Sons of Veterans and various other patriotic and civic associations, will dedicate six Japanese cherry blossom trees to the memory of six war dead, as part of their Memorial Day rites.
The trees will be planted at the county park and set apart officially with six markers, one for each memorial arbor. The trees were purchased by the Legion and the markers by the Auxiliary. The men to be honored are:
William M. Hickman, Company B, 145th Infantry, killed by machine gun bullets while taking part in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, September 28, 1918.
Sergeant Fred H. Baines, and Townsend C. Young, both of Company G, 114th Infantry, felled by bullets from machine guns and Argonne Forest, October 12, 1918.
John J. Sheldon, Battery A, 126th Field Artillery, died in the Third Scottish-General Hospital, Glasgow, October 14, 1918.
David Barnaby, private first-class, Company F, 76th Heavy Field Artillery, died in Evacuation Hospital No. 8, Maven, Germany, on February 4, 1919.
Amon Lane, who had enlisted in 1812 [sic], and had renewed his enlistment on entrance to the World War, joining a mounted organization, was gassed while carrying a message through the lines, and died later in a government hospital in New York.