Name
Frederick John Pratt Starkey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/11/1918
39
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
48814
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DOURLERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Grave 1 B 24
France
UK & Other Memorials
Goffs Oak Memorial
Cheshunt Town Memorial
Ireland’s Memorial Records
Pre War
Born in 1879 in Stanway, Gloucestershire, one of four children of John and Catherine. In 1901 he was a gamekeeper in Temple Guiting, Gloucestershire and in the same year he married Fanny Noad In 1911 he was a gamekeeper at Broadfield Farm, Cheshunt living with his wife and two daughters. He enlisted at Cheshunt into The Bedfordshire regiment.
Wartime Service
Formerly 30113 Bedfordshire Regiment and 58613 Cheshire Regiment. He enlisted in Cheshunt. He fought with The Cheshire regiment in Macedonia and at some time moved to The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and was Killed in Action.
Additional Information
In June 1997 Broxbourne Borough Council received a suggestion from the Chairman of Goffs Oak Community Association to name roads to commemorate the men who lost their lives in the two world wars that are displayed on the Goffs Oak War Memorial. It was decided that these names should be used for the large development in Hammond Street Road This soldier was one of them; Starkey Close is named in memory of him.
Acknowledgments
Brian Lodge
