STERLING, WILLIAM, Private No. 9097, West Yorkshire Regt., s. of William Sterling, of Hebburn, Joiner, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of James Turner; b. Hebburn New Town, co. Durham, 13 Feb. 1897; educ. there; enlisted on outbreak of war, 1914, and went with his regt. to France, 9 Jan. 1915. He died of wounds received while in action at Neuve Chapelle, 14 March, 1915. buried in Bailleul Cemetery; unm. A comrade wrote: “We fought hard all day, not having time to eat, and late at night we went about 50 of us to a billet to eat. Shortly afterwards the Germans shelled our place, and mostly all were either killed or wounded, Private W. Sterling being hit in the back with shrapnel and died two hours afterwards in a hospital near by.’
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1