In Memory of
Frederick Starling
Lance Corporal 240909
2nd/6th Bn., Royal Warwickshire Regiment
who died on
Wednesday, 19th July 1916.
Commemorative Information
Memorial:
LOOS MEMORIAL
Grave Reference/
Panel Number:
Panel 22 to 25
Location:
Loos-en-Gohelle is a village about 5 kilometres north-west of Lens. The Loos
Memorial forms the side and back of Dud Corner Cemetery where over 1,700 officers
and men are buried, the great majority of whom fell in the Battle of Loos.
Dud Corner Cemetery, which stands almost on the site of a German strong point, the
Lens Road Redoubt, captured by the 15th (Scottish) Division on the first day of the
battle, is located about 1 kilometre west of the village, on the N43, the main Lens to
Bethune road.
The Loos Memorial commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who fell in the area
from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of
Grenay, and who have no known grave. It covers the period from the first day of the
Battle of Loos to the date of the Armistice.
On either side of the cemetery is a wall 15 feet high, to which are fixed tablets on
which are carved the names of those commemorated. At the back are four small
circular courts, open to the sky, in which the lines of tablets are continued, and
between these courts are three semicircular walls or apses, two of which carry
tablets, while on the centre apse is erected the Cross of Sacrifice.
Copyright The Commonwealth War Graves Commission