Name
Frederick John Pratt Starkey
1879
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
Headstone Inscription
"AT REST"
UK & Other Memorials
Goffs Oak War Memorial, St James Church Memorial Goffs Oak, Cheshunt Town Memorial, Church of St Mary the Virgin Memorial Cheshunt, Ireland’s Memorial Records
Pre War
Frederick John Pratt Starkey was born in late 1879, in Stanway, Gloucestershire son of John Starkey a Head Gamekeeper and Catherine Starkey (nee Combes), Johns second wife. (John had three children by his first wife Flora Weir who died in 1873).
1881 Census records Frederick aged 1, living with his parents, and half-sisters Jane (18) and Violet (12) at, Cottage “A”, Stanway, Gloucestershire.
1901 Census, Frederick (21) is employed as a Gamekeeper and recorded as a Lodger at Stanway School, Church Stanway, Glos.
Frederick married Fanny Sarah Noad, of Battle, Sussex, the daughter of Charles and Eliza Jane Noad, on 3rd May 1902, they went on to have two daughters Violetta born in October 1903 and Selina born in January 1905.
1911 Census records Frederick (31), a Gamekeeper, living with his wife and two daughters at Broadfield Lodge, Cheshunt, Herts.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted at Cheshunt, posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 30113, transferred to the Cheshire Regiment with the service number 58613. He fought with the Cheshire Regiment in Macedonia, later transferred to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers with the service number 48814. Frederick was killed in Action on 8th November 1918, just three days from the end of the war. He is buried in Dourlers Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Grave ref. I. B. 24.
Additional Information
Fanny received a widow’s pension of £1-5s-5d, a week from 9th June 1919, and his effects of £7-05s-00d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £13-10s-00d.
The inscription on his Headstone “AT REST” was requested by Mrs. F. S. Starkey, of 3 Fairfax Villas, Cromwell Avenue, Herts, his wife.
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
Stuart Osborne
Brian Lodge
