Robert Barnett

Rifleman Robert Barnett, who was born Raphael Glitzenstein, was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 25 June 1899, in Hackney, the son of Russian-born parents Barnett, a tailor by trade, and Esther Glitzenstein (née Bloomberg). A family argument prompted Glitzenstein to leave home and enlist in the British Army, upon which he assumed the name of Robert Barnett and joined the 1st Battalion, The Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade).Did you know that?, rgjmuseum.co.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
Barnett went to the Western Front at the age of 15, below the minimum age of 19 that a soldier was required to be for overseas service.van Emden, Richard (2012), Boy Soldiers of the Great War. He died on 19 December 1914, in an attack on Ploegsteert Wood, one of three officers and 23 other ranks killed. His death made him one of the youngest soldiers to perish in the war.
He is buried in Rifle House Cemetery.
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*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Barnett, Robert
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