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Perhaps King George I of Greece, certainly Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria who figures in other Bain photos, see www.flickr.com/search/?q=ferdinand+bulgaria. If it is George of Greece, it is before March 18, 1913, when he was assassinated -- in Salonika. I get the impression the countries were at odds over Salonika by then, See query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C05E2DF1730E233A... The picture at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_I_of_Greece shows him with a long moustache, so he could be to the left (as we look) of Ferdinand. The Wikipedia article indicates "On 9 November 1912, Greek forces rode into Salonika, just a few hours ahead of a Bulgarian division." This action was against the Turks, during the First Balkan War.

swanq, thank you for this information! We will clarify the names in the source data and reload the description.

Actually, King George I of the Hellenes (the man with the long mustache next to the Bulgarian tsar) was assassinated on March 5, 1913 as he was proceeding from the Hadjilazarou Mansion, near Thessaloniki's White Tower, to the quay to board a German naval motorboat in order to pay a protocol visit to the admiral-in-command abroad the SMS Goeben, the German imperial navy's battle-cruiser of WW1 fame. The King was conversing with his aide-de-camp, Major Fragoudis, as he was proceeding down the street when Alexandros Schinas stepped forth and shot the King once in the back. Schinas attempted to shoot Fragoudis as well but the major swiftly disarmed the assassin and surrendered him to two Cretan gendarmes, who had rushed to the scene. The King was pronounced DOA at a nearby infirmary.

Here's an official photo of King George

The above picture of the Greek King with the Bulgarian Czar (who had his two sons on his left) was shot in December 1912 after the Bulgarians lost the race to occupy Thessaloniki before an advancing Greek army arrived to liberate the city on November 5, 1912. See below a photo of King George entering Thessaloniki on horseback on that day (king on left; Prince Constantine, heir to the throne, rides alongside).

The 1901 census has an 11 year old Charles G. born at what looks like Portronan, Country Donegal and who was recorded at Scaitcliffe E.G, Egham Surry as a boarder.(Apologies, but the census enumerators hand-writing is appalling)

Scaitcliffe was a day/boarding prep school for boys aged 6-13 in Egham, Surrey. After merging with Virginia Water school, the school is now co-educational and known as Bishopsgate School. The school is located in a small village in Egham called Englefield Green near Windsor Great Park.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaitcliffe

There isn't an obvious match for Charles on the 1911 census.

The additional information on the CWGC site is that he was son of the late Col. B. J. Barton, A.D.C., D.L., and Mrs. Barton, of Portsalon, Co. Donegal; husband of Letty Barton, of The Garth, Ashford, Kent.
www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/572143/BARTON,%...

It may be coincidence but in a piece on a well-to-do pair of spinsters from Dublin who grew up in this period and who moved in the circles of the Anglo-Irish gentry, there is a passing mention of a Barton family of Portsalon, Co Donegal.

"Golf was a particular passion of Letitia’s and she was a member of Carrickmines Golf Club in Dublin and Portsalon in Co. Donegal. This is a picture of a golf outing at Portsalon with members of the Barton family. The Overends and Bartons were related and both Letitia and Naomi spent quite a lot of time in Donegal with their cousins throughout their lives. For Letitia in particular it provided the only real contact she had with other children (or teenagers as we would say now) as her early life was dominated by adult company."
www.airfield.ie/who_we_are_overend_family.html

(Part of the reason they may well have remained spinsters is the devasting losses suffered amongst the eligible young men of their generation).

Many of the Kent Town memorials have been very well researched, although some of the associated documents are quite large - the one for Ashford Civic memorial is 46Mbps. These confirm that Charles was commemorated on both that memorial and the Ashford St Mary's one. Although it doesn't offer much additional information about his death, it does note that his father had been aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria and gives his mothers name as Mrs Ethel Barrow Barton.
www.kentfallen.com/PDF%20REPORTS/ASHFORD%20TOWN.pdf

I can't find an obvious candidate in England and Wales for the marriage of Charles and Letty, but of course they could have married in Ireland and then had some other reason to move to Kent.

I also could not find a citation for his Military Cross award in the London Gazette - in fact the only mention I could find of him was a note in the edition dates 28th July 1916 that a Temporary Lieutenant C G Barton of the Royal Inniskillings gave up the rank of Temporary Captain on ceasing to command a Company, effective 20th May 1916.
www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29687/pages/7486

(PS - I too thought of David Niven when I saw the picture :-)

Charles Geoffrey Barton was the youngest of 8 children, (2 girls and 6 boys - all of the boys later becoming Servicemen; Lt Col B J Barton DSO [33rd]; Lt G Barton RN; Lt R Barton RGA; Maj E H Barton [10 R Innis Fus], and Capt C G Barton MC [5 R Innis Fus]).
Details are at: The Peerage.com www.thepeerage.com/p26800.htm#i267992

Charles Geoffrey Barton married Ethel Barrow Welldon on 27th March 1915; they had a daughter, Carol, b. 25 December 1915. Carol went to Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall) and later married Lt Col Richard William Shepherd, (9 August 1941), they had 2 sons and a daughter. Ethel Barton died in 1971.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Sarrail en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleftherios_Venizelos

"General Sarrail and M. Venezelos at a review of a Regiment of Spahis, Salonika, 11th March, 1917. Photographer Ariel Verges.
MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION"
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205298304

MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION© IWM (Q 32796)
One of 4 photos of this military review at IWM site.

Thanks Richard Norton for looking up their full names and thanks Art for locating this photo at the Imperial War Museum. We'll update our catalog records.