In Memory of
Ernest Starling
Private
204138
1st/4th Bn., Hampshire Regiment
who died on
Thursday, 23rd February 1917.
Commemorative Information
Memorial:
BASRA MEMORIAL,
Grave Reference/
Panel Number:
Panel 21 and 63
Location:
The Basra Memorial was originally sited within Basra War Cemetery but in 1997 the Memorial
was
moved by presidential decree. The move, carried out by the authorities in Iraq, involved a
considerable amount of manpower, transport costs and sheer engineering on their part, and
the
Memorial has been re-erected in its entirety.
The Basra Memorial is now located in the middle of what was a major battleground during
the Gulf
War.
The Memorial consists of a roofed colonnade of white Indian stone, 80 metres long, with an
obelisk 16 metres high as the central feature. The names are engraved on slate panels
fixed to
the wall behind the columns.
More than 40,000 British, Indian and West African dead who died in the operations in
Mesopotamia from the Autumn of 1914 to the end of August 1921, are commemorated on the
Memorial.
Copyright The Commonwealth War Graves Commission