Notes
The Roll lists his address as 26 Star Road.
(CWGC records that Lance Corporal Ernest Exton Starling, regimental number 14396, died aged 22 on 10/8/1917 serving in 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Ypres Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium. They record him as the son of Henry and Frances Starling of 26 Star Road, Peterborough. Ernest's Army service file records that he was born in 1895 in St Mary's parish, Peterborough, and that he enlisted at Northampton on 2/9/1914 as a Private in the Northamptonshire Regiment. On 3/2/1915 he was posted to the 1st Battalion and landed at Le Havre with them that day. Having been reported as missing on 9/5/1915, he was found two days later with gunshot wounds to his leg, and returned to England on 15/5/1915. He was later posted to the 3rd Battalion on 21/7/1915.
On 14/4/1916 he was posted back to France with the 1st Battalion, actually joining them in the field on 15/6/1916. On 13/7/1916 he sustained a gunshot wound to his back, and was treated at Rouen Hospital before being sent back to England on 15/7/1916. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion from 1/9/1916. On 4/10/1916 he was posted to the 6th Battalion and returned to France; he actually joined them in the field on 24/10/1916, and was later appointed as unpaid Lance Corporal on 23/3/1917. He was reported as missing on 10/8/1917, which was presumed to be his date of death).