In Memory of
Frederick William Starling
Private
32422
11th Bn., Essex Regiment
who died on
Sunday, 22nd April 1917.
Commemorative Information
Memorial:
LOOS MEMORIAL
Grave Reference/
Panel Number:
Panel 85 to 87
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