Charles Frederick Fearon Barker

Charles Frederick Fearon Barker born 1878.

His parents, Isabella and Charles, were married in June 1869.

He was living in British Columbia in about 1900 when he decided to go to South Africa to join the Second Boer War. He made his own passage there, and joined No. 1 Troop of F Squadron of the South African Light Horse. The war began in October 1899 and he was there and fighting at the front by March the following year.