In Memory of
W F STARLING
Private G/22231
10th (R. East Kent and West Kent Yeomanry) Bn., The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
who died on
Saturday, 21st September 1918.
Additional Information:
Husband of A. M. Starling, of Ash Cottage, Little Clacton, Clacton-on-Sea.
Commemorative Information
Cemetery:
STE. EMILIE VALLEY CEMETERY, VILLERS-FAUCON, Somme, France
Grave Reference/
Panel Number:
II. C. II.
Location:
Villers-Faucon is a village about 14 kilometres north-east of Peronne, and Ste Emilie
Valley
Cemetery is 2 kilometres east of the village on the road between Epehy and Roisel.
Historical Information:
On this site there were, at the Armistice, three large graves of British soldiers buried
by
the Germans, which now form part of Plot I; and the remainder of the cemetery is
composed almost entirely of graves brought in from an older cemetery of the same name
or from the battlefields. A large proportion were those of soldiers of the 16th (Irish)
Division who fell in March, 1918. There are now over 500, 1914-18 war casualties
commemorated in this site. Of these, nearly half are unidentified and special memorials
are
erected to 21 soldiers from the United Kingdom believed to be buried among them. The
Cemetery covers an area of 1,907 square metres and is enclosed by a rubble wall. STE
EMILIE VALLEY OLD CEMETERY was a few hundred metres to the East. It was made by
the 74th (Yeomanry) Division and by Field Ambulances. STE EMILIE ROADSIDE GERMAN
CEMETERY (now removed) on the road from Ste Emilie to Ronssoy, was made by British
troops after the Armistice and contained the graves of 791 German soldiers.
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