In our first chapter, we traced the London-based childhood and subsequent career path of our Saracens squad member, Victor Baron Barnett, as he, like so many of his young contemporaries in the first decade of the new century, took on the challenges facing him with both zeal and great commitment. Victor was a member of…
There was to be no ‘Remembrance Day’ on November 11th 1914, obviously. Wednesday, 11th November 1914 was the one hundredth day of the war, and was instead marked by the launch of von Hindenburg’s offensive against Warsaw in the east, and a final attempt by the Prussian Guard to seize back the Belgian city of…
Born in 1887, Victor Baron Barnett spent his formative teenage years in Blomfield Road, W9, where the large and gracious family home faced onto the Little Venice basin, the canal no doubt bustling with longboats, just as it does to this day. His parents Baron David and Kate were both central-London born and had married…
