Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the youngest son of the Reverend Benjamin Barrett, Vicar of Braunston, Rutland, born 1842 in Byfield, Northamptonshire and his wife Sarah Emily, born 1860 in Durham, and the daughter of William Henry Bramwell. George was born in 1890 in Braunston, Rutland, he had one sibling, a brother William H., born 1887 in Braunston, Rutland. George gained a scholarship at Marlborough College in December 1902, entering the school in mid summer, 1903, and remaining there until 1909, when he went on to University College Oxford where he gained a second class honours degree in Classical Mods. in 1911, and second class honours in his History Finals in June 1913. At the outbreak of war he was engaged in teaching and enlisted through the Oxford O.T.C. being gazetted on the 4th October to the 11th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment he then transferred to the 12th Battalion, being promoted to Lieutenant in December 1914, and left the Isle of Wight on his 25th birthday, 19th May 1915, for Liverpool where he embarked for Gallipoli, landing there on the 30th May. He was attached to the 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment, and was in the firing line on the 2nd June, and took part in the battles on the 4th and the 6th June, the Turks being on three sides of them. From this time, with the exception of fourteen days in July, all his time was spent in the trenches, with short periods at Cape Hellas either road making or unloading ships. On the 6th of August his regiment went into the trenches to make a “demonstration” in order to draw the Turks attention from the landings taking place at Suvla Bay, he was killed in a bayonet charge near Krithia and Achi Baba. After this action he with sixteen other officers, was reported “missing,” (11th August), later reported missing, believed killed. But subsequently on the 12th February 1916 it was officially confirmed as killed in action. His father received a communication from the War Office to say that a “report has just been received which states that Lieutenant George Barrett, 12th Royal Warwickshires, who was previously reported “missing believed killed,” is now reported “killed in action.” It was stated that Lieutenant Barrett was one of the first officers to go over the parapet, and that he was hit when twenty yards from the enemy trenches whilst leading his men in the attack. A Private wrote that Lieutenant Barrett, “was one of the first officers to climb over our parapet,” and another that he fell in advance of his men. George was unmarried.