{"id":3759,"date":"2023-07-10T09:57:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T08:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=3759"},"modified":"2023-07-10T09:58:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T08:58:53","slug":"starke-h-sapper-2385-royal-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/07\/10\/starke-h-sapper-2385-royal-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Starke H Sapper 2385 Royal Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3760\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Starke-H-Sapper-2385-Royal-Engineers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3760\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3760\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Starke-H-Sapper-2385-Royal-Engineers-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Starke-H-Sapper-2385-Royal-Engineers-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Starke-H-Sapper-2385-Royal-Engineers.jpg 546w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Starke H Sapper 2385 Royal Engineers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>STARKE, HARRY, Sapper, No. 2385, 1\/3rd Coy. Kent Fortress R.E. (T.F.), only child of James Starke, of 9, Kenwood Road, Highgate, N., for 48 years Carman on G.N. Railway, by his wife, Martha, dau. of Andrew (and Mary) Smith; b. Holloway, 27 March, 1871; educ. Blundell Street L.C.C. School, Caledonian Road, Holloway, N.; was a Carpenter by trade; served in the 17th North Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps from 19 Feb. 1890 to 5 Jan. 1893, and after the outbreak of war enlisted, 31 May, 1915; went to the Dardanelles in the transport Hythe, and was drowned in a collision off Gallipoli, 28 Oct. 1915. He m. at St. Saviour&#8217;s Church, Hornsey Rise, 20 Feb. 1892, Emily (8, Montem Street, Upper Holloway, N.), dau. of William Root, Gardener for over 30 years to Mr. R. Gaskell, North Hill, Highgate, N., and had issue: Frederick James, b. 5 June, 1893; Harry William Alfred, b. 20 Oct. 1894; Emily Martha, b. 6 Nov. 1897; Florence Ivy, b. 17 June, 1899; and Catherine Alice, b. 9 Feb. 1901.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STARKE, HARRY, Sapper, No. 2385, 1\/3rd Coy. Kent Fortress R.E. (T.F.), only child of James Starke, of 9, Kenwood Road, Highgate, N., for 48 years Carman on G.N. Railway, by his wife, Martha, dau. of Andrew (and Mary) Smith; b. Holloway, 27 March, 1871; educ. Blundell Street L.C.C. School, Caledonian Road, Holloway, N.; was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-engineers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3763,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions\/3763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}