Casualty of the Great War,Sophia was a Voluntary Aid Detachment member through the St. John Ambulance Brigade.She was a victim of the sinking of R.M.S. Leinster.The Royal Mail Ship "Leinster", owned by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, was torpedoed in the Irish Sea, 16 miles east of Dublin, shortly before 10am on the morning of 10th October 1918, on its outbound journey of 68 miles from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire], Dublin, to Holyhead, Anglesey, North Wales.
Sophie Barrett came home on leave from France, for an unknown period.
She spent the last week staying with the Wilsons at their home, Carrickmines House, Foxrock.Her sister Elizabeth Barrett Armstrong saw her off at Kingstown, so it seems most likely that there had been a family reunion in the Wilson house over the previous days.
After the recovery of Sophia's body, she was brought back to Carrickmines House, on Saturday 12th October 1918. On Monday 14th October, her coffin was borne in an ambulance from Carrickmines to Kilternan, for burial.
The cortege was headed by a mounted escort of Hussars.
Her name is on Tullow Church War Memorial, Brighton Road, Foxrock, Carrickmines and the silver chalice used for communion there bears her name. She is commemorated on a memorial in the Church of Ireland, Kenagh, Co. Longford. She shows as Violet Barrett on the York Minster panels.
As at September 2013 she is commemorated as war dead by reason of her overseas service on the Hollybrook Memorial and the fact that her body was thought to have been lost at sea. However, the Official Point of Commemoration will be changed to the cemetery in which she is interred; her grave will be designated as a war grave.
On the 1911 census, she was listed as a "visitor" in the home of Noble and Elizabeth Armstrong at Lislea, Co. Longford.Many "visitors" were actually relatives, but this "fact" is hidden.Noble Armstrong married Elizabeth Barrett at Ballymahon, Co. Longford, in 1909.Elizabeth and Sophia were therefore sisters.
The grave immediately to the right of hers is that of Marcella Anne Esther Barrett Wilson
The relationship of the two Barrett women to each other has not been definitely established, but it is highly likely that Marcella was Sophia's aunt.
Sophie Barrett came home on leave from France, for an unknown period.
She spent the last week staying with the Wilsons at their home, Carrickmines House, Foxrock.Her sister Elizabeth Barrett Armstrong saw her off at Kingstown, so it seems most likely that there had been a family reunion in the Wilson house over the previous days.
After the recovery of Sophia's body, she was brought back to Carrickmines House, on Saturday 12th October 1918. On Monday 14th October, her coffin was borne in an ambulance from Carrickmines to Kilternan, for burial.
The cortege was headed by a mounted escort of Hussars.
Her name is on Tullow Church War Memorial, Brighton Road, Foxrock, Carrickmines and the silver chalice used for communion there bears her name. She is commemorated on a memorial in the Church of Ireland, Kenagh, Co. Longford. She shows as Violet Barrett on the York Minster panels.
As at September 2013 she is commemorated as war dead by reason of her overseas service on the Hollybrook Memorial and the fact that her body was thought to have been lost at sea. However, the Official Point of Commemoration will be changed to the cemetery in which she is interred; her grave will be designated as a war grave.
On the 1911 census, she was listed as a "visitor" in the home of Noble and Elizabeth Armstrong at Lislea, Co. Longford.Many "visitors" were actually relatives, but this "fact" is hidden.Noble Armstrong married Elizabeth Barrett at Ballymahon, Co. Longford, in 1909.Elizabeth and Sophia were therefore sisters.
The grave immediately to the right of hers is that of Marcella Anne Esther Barrett Wilson
The relationship of the two Barrett women to each other has not been definitely established, but it is highly likely that Marcella was Sophia's aunt.
Casualty of the Great War,Sophia was a Voluntary Aid Detachment member through the St. John Ambulance Brigade.She was a victim of the sinking of R.M.S. Leinster.The Royal Mail Ship "Leinster", owned by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, was torpedoed in the Irish Sea, 16 miles east of Dublin, shortly before 10am on the morning of 10th October 1918, on its outbound journey of 68 miles from Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire], Dublin, to Holyhead, Anglesey, North Wales.
Sophie Barrett came home on leave from France, for an unknown period.
She spent the last week staying with the Wilsons at their home, Carrickmines House, Foxrock.Her sister Elizabeth Barrett Armstrong saw her off at Kingstown, so it seems most likely that there had been a family reunion in the Wilson house over the previous days.
After the recovery of Sophia's body, she was brought back to Carrickmines House, on Saturday 12th October 1918. On Monday 14th October, her coffin was borne in an ambulance from Carrickmines to Kilternan, for burial.
The cortege was headed by a mounted escort of Hussars.
Her name is on Tullow Church War Memorial, Brighton Road, Foxrock, Carrickmines and the silver chalice used for communion there bears her name. She is commemorated on a memorial in the Church of Ireland, Kenagh, Co. Longford. She shows as Violet Barrett on the York Minster panels.
As at September 2013 she is commemorated as war dead by reason of her overseas service on the Hollybrook Memorial and the fact that her body was thought to have been lost at sea. However, the Official Point of Commemoration will be changed to the cemetery in which she is interred; her grave will be designated as a war grave.
On the 1911 census, she was listed as a "visitor" in the home of Noble and Elizabeth Armstrong at Lislea, Co. Longford.Many "visitors" were actually relatives, but this "fact" is hidden.Noble Armstrong married Elizabeth Barrett at Ballymahon, Co. Longford, in 1909.Elizabeth and Sophia were therefore sisters.
The grave immediately to the right of hers is that of Marcella Anne Esther Barrett Wilson
The relationship of the two Barrett women to each other has not been definitely established, but it is highly likely that Marcella was Sophia's aunt.
Sophie Barrett came home on leave from France, for an unknown period.
She spent the last week staying with the Wilsons at their home, Carrickmines House, Foxrock.Her sister Elizabeth Barrett Armstrong saw her off at Kingstown, so it seems most likely that there had been a family reunion in the Wilson house over the previous days.
After the recovery of Sophia's body, she was brought back to Carrickmines House, on Saturday 12th October 1918. On Monday 14th October, her coffin was borne in an ambulance from Carrickmines to Kilternan, for burial.
The cortege was headed by a mounted escort of Hussars.
Her name is on Tullow Church War Memorial, Brighton Road, Foxrock, Carrickmines and the silver chalice used for communion there bears her name. She is commemorated on a memorial in the Church of Ireland, Kenagh, Co. Longford. She shows as Violet Barrett on the York Minster panels.
As at September 2013 she is commemorated as war dead by reason of her overseas service on the Hollybrook Memorial and the fact that her body was thought to have been lost at sea. However, the Official Point of Commemoration will be changed to the cemetery in which she is interred; her grave will be designated as a war grave.
On the 1911 census, she was listed as a "visitor" in the home of Noble and Elizabeth Armstrong at Lislea, Co. Longford.Many "visitors" were actually relatives, but this "fact" is hidden.Noble Armstrong married Elizabeth Barrett at Ballymahon, Co. Longford, in 1909.Elizabeth and Sophia were therefore sisters.
The grave immediately to the right of hers is that of Marcella Anne Esther Barrett Wilson
The relationship of the two Barrett women to each other has not been definitely established, but it is highly likely that Marcella was Sophia's aunt.
Inscription
SOPHIA VIOLET
BARRATT
V.A.D.
The St. John Ambulance
Brigade.
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
younger daughter of
SAMUEL BARRETT J.P.
of Ballintava, County of Galway
whose four years war service closed
the 10th October 1918 when returning
to duty in France on R.M.S. Leinster
torpedoed off the Irish Coast
Gravesite Details
Interred 14th October 1918. Grave marked by Private Memorial-tiered plinth.
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