STARLING Henry

Harry Starling was born in Bushley in 1884, the son of Henry and Rosanna Starling.  By 1911 Rosanna was a widow and she was living with her 4 adult children at Bushley Green.  Harry initially enlisted in the army on 6th September 1914 and served as Private 12616 Gloucestershire Regiment before being transferred as Private 366831 in the Royal Army Service Corps.  He served 2 months in France and 13 months in Salonika where he was wounded by shrapnel in the chest.  He was discharged on 5th April 1919.

The Bushley, Longden, Queenhill and Holdfast Almanack and Year Book for 1915:
The Roll of Honour.
Bushley
The following is a List of Bushley men now serving their country in the Army.
1. Those who have enlisted for the War:
David Morgan, of Hill House, Lance-Corpl. 5th Glo’ster Territorials
William Nash, son of Mr Nash, Bushley School….Culham School-masters Corps
Cecil Jones….Trooper, Somerset Yeomanry.

In Kitcheners’s Army
J.O. Griffin (late chauffeur at Pull Court) Lance-Corpl. 9th Glo’sters
A.H. Walker, Lance-Corporal 9th Glo’sters
Henry Starling, of Freebarns End, 9th Glo’sters
J.T. Philpot, Bushley Green, 9th Glo’sters
Thos. Lane, The Gardens, Pull Court, 9th Glo’sters
H.G. Trigg, 9th Glo’sters
Charles Blake, Church End, 9th Glo’sters
A.A. Blake, 9th Glo’sters
Nathaniel W. George (who died in Hospital, Dec. 1) 9th Glo’sters
Richard Smith, Green Street Lodge, 9th Glo’sters
David Hamblin, 9th Glo’sters

N.B. – Of these, Henry Starling is recovering from attack of pleurisy in Hospital at Malmesbury.

The following information has been researched by Andy Frisby:
Prior to enlisting Harry Starling was employed as a farm labourer.  He went to France on 20th September 1915.  Harry died in Cheltenham in 1971, aged 86.