Before WW1 he had already served in the Army Dragoons in South Africa, then Pte 4694 3rd Coldstream Guards, L/Cpl P5267 Military Mounted Police Corps. (“Narrow Escape” Sheffield Independent 15/10/1915). b 1882 Sheffield,1911C a police officer in Sheffield living with mother-in-law; Millicent Barber (née Higginbottom) b Hathersage 1847.