BORN HULL 18/9/1893. SON OF WILLIAM STARK & MARY ANN SMITH, OF 17, ROSEDALE AVENUE, UPTON STREET, HULL; 17, DERBY AVENUE, BRIGHT STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS) AND 4, MAXWELL TERRACE, MAXWELL STREET, STONEFERRY, HULL (ARMY & WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS, WILLIAM, WALTER AND ARTHUR. THIS WAS IS NAVY RECORDS ADDRESS.
HE JOINED THE ROYAL NAVY AND WAS LOST AT JULTAND, ON HMS “QUEEN MARY”, 31/05/1916, AGED 23. COMMEMORATED ON THE PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ST MARYS CHURCH, MEMORIAL, LOWGATE, HULL, WITH HIS BROTHER, LANCE SERGEANT, ARTHUR STARK, 7TH SOUTH LANCS, KILLED ON ON 23/09/1917, AGED 34.
HERBERT STARK IS ALSO LISTED ON HULL’S WILMINGTON ROLL OF HONOUR. HIS WAR PENSION WENT TO HIS FATHER, WILLIAM, WHO LATER MOVED TO NORTHALLERTON.
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