{"id":3765,"date":"2023-07-11T07:54:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T06:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=3765"},"modified":"2023-07-11T07:54:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T06:54:41","slug":"barber-starkey-w-h-j-captain-royal-field-artillery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/barber-starkey-w-h-j-captain-royal-field-artillery\/","title":{"rendered":"Barber-Starkey W H J Captain Royal Field Artillery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Barber-Starkey W H J Captain Royal Field Artillery<\/p><\/div>\n

CAPTAIN W. H. J. BARBER-STARKEY Royal Field Artillery<\/p>\n

Small Houses 94-96 Aged 34<\/p>\n

Sept. 10th, 1914<\/p>\n

ELDEST Son of William Joseph Starkey Barber-Starkey, J.P., B.A., of Aldenham Park, Bridgnorth, Co. Salop, and Margaret Aim\u00e9e, third daughter of Sir George Kinloch, 1st Baronet, of Kinloch.<\/p>\n

Trinity College, Cambridge.<\/p>\n

Captain Barber-Starkey was gazetted to the Royal Field Artillery from the Forfarshire Militia in 1900, was promoted Lieutenant in 1903, and Captain in 1912. He went to France with the Expeditionary Force on August 17th, 1914. He died from wounds, received on August 26th, 1914, in the Battle of Le Cateau.<\/p>\n

On September 2nd he was officially reported missing,’ and was twice afterwards unofficially reported a prisoner of war at Torgau, unwounded. His parents received information of his death through the Red Cross International Agency of Prisoners of War, Geneva. He died, on September 10th, 1914, in a German Field Hospital at Le Cateau, where he is buried.<\/p>\n

Source : Harrow Memorials Of The Great War 1914-1918 Vol 1<\/p>\n

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Barber-Starkey W H J Captain Royal Field Artillery<\/p><\/div>\n

Source : The Illustrated London News 21st Nov 1914<\/p>\n

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Barber-Starkey W H J Captain Royal Field Artillery<\/p><\/div>\n

BARBER-STARKEY, WILLIAM HENRY JOSEPH, Capt., 52nd Battery, Royal Field Artillery, eldest s. of William Joseph Starkey Barber-Starkey, Aldenham Park, Bridgenorth, co. Salop, J.P., B.A., by his wife, Margaret Aime\u00e9, 3rd dau. of Sir George Kinloch, of Kinloch, 1st Bart., J.P., D.L.; b. The Hall, Huttons Ambo, co. York, 4 March, 1880; educ. Harrow, and Trinity College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the R.F A. from the Militia, 6 Oct. 1900; promoted Lieut. 24 Oct. 1903, and Capt. 9 May, 1912; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., from 17 Aug.1914, and died a prisoner of war in a German Field Hospital, 10 Sept. following, from wounds. received in action at Le Cateau, 26 Aug. previously; unm. Buried at Le Cateau.<\/p>\n

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CAPTAIN W. H. J. BARBER-STARKEY Royal Field Artillery Small Houses 94-96 Aged 34 Sept. 10th, 1914 ELDEST Son of William Joseph Starkey Barber-Starkey, J.P., B.A., of Aldenham Park, Bridgnorth, Co. Salop, and Margaret Aim\u00e9e, third daughter of Sir George Kinloch, 1st Baronet, of Kinloch. Trinity College, Cambridge. Captain Barber-Starkey was gazetted to the Royal Field […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-field-artillery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765","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=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3769,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions\/3769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}