George Starsmore
View George on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission websiteService number:
201202
Rank:
Private
Service:
Essex Regiment
Origin:
Date of birth:
14 July 1880
Date of death:
26 March 1917
Age at Death:
37
Known information
George Starsmore was born at Baston, Lincolnshire on 14 July 1880, the son of William and Elizabeth Starsmore. The family moved to Great Casterton and then to Tickencote. George worked as a baker and confectioner. Enlisting on 2 July 1915 into the Essex Regiment, he went to Egypt on 9 October the same year, and was killed in action fighting against the Turks in Palestine on 26 March 1917. He was 37 years old and is buried in Gaza War Cemetery, grave X.C.14, and is remembered in the church at Tickencote. After the war his widow Rose was recorded as living at 31, Rutland Road, Bedford.
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Rutland and The Battle of the Somme
More than 90 Rutland soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme which lasted from 1 July 1916 until the middle of November. Today they lie in cemeteries across the old battlefield in northern France or are remembered among the 72,000 names on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. By using our interactive map, you can find out what happened to them.
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