In Memory of
WALTER JAMES STARLING
Private 40909
1st Bn., Hertfordshire Regiment
who died on
Friday, 21st September 1917. Age 23.
Additional Information:
Son of Mrs. E. Starling, of Wilsmere Down, Barrington. Cambs.
Commemorative Information
Cemetery:
DUHALLOW A.D.S. CEMETERY, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Grave Reference/
Panel Number:
VIII. F. 5.
Location:
The Cemetery is located on the Diksmuidseweg, N369 road, in the direction of Boezinge.
From Ieper station turn left into M.Fochlaan and go to the roundabout, turn right and go
to the next roundabout. Here turn left and drive to the next roundabout, where you
should turn right into Oude Veurnestraat. Take the second turning on the left which is the
Diksmuidseweg. The cemetery is on the right hand side of the road just past the first
turning on the right.
Historical Information:
Duhallow Advanced Dressing Station was a medical post 1.6 kilometres North of the town
of Ypres. Its name is believed to have been taken from that of a Southern Irish Hunt. The
Cemetery was begun in July, 1917, on the day of the Battle of Pilckem Ridge, and Plots I
and IV were completed by November, 1918. The graves of October and November, 1918,
are due to deaths in the 11th, 36th and 44th Casualty Clearing Stations. After the
Armistice, bodies were brought into this Cemetery from isolated graves and small
Cemeteries on the battlefields North, East, and South of Ypres, including Malakoff Farm
Cemetery, Brielen, and Fusilier Wood Cemetery, Hollebeke. There are now over 1,500,
1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casaulties commemorated in this site. Of
these, over 200 from the 1914-18 War are unidentified and special memorials record the
names of 10 soldiers buried in Malakoff Farm Cemetery, Brielen and 29 buried in Fusilier
Wood Cemetery, Hollebeke, whose graves were destroyed by shelling during later fighting.
A special memorial was also erected to a soldier of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
who is believed to be buried in one of the graves marked as unknown. The cemetery
covers an area of 5,064 square metres and is enclosed on the North and South sides by a
low curb wall.
Copyright The Commonwealth War Graves Commission