In Memory of
JOSEPH WILLIAM STARLING
Private 8329
2nd Bn., Norfolk Regiment
who died on
Friday, 23rd February 1917. Age 24.
Additional Information:
Son of William and Esther Starling, of Holbeach St. Mark's, Holbeach, Lincs.
Commemorative Information
Memorial:
BASRA MEMORIAL, Iraq
Grave Reference/
Panel Number:
Panel 10
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 32 kilometres along the road to Nasiriyah, 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