PTE. DIGBY MOUNTENEY STARKEY, 11TH BATTN. ROYAL SUSSEX REGT. KILLED IN ACTION NEAR BELLICOURT, MARCH 21ST, 1918. AGED 31. At the School 1901—3 (Day Boy). D. M. Starkey was the elder son of the Iate Frederick St. John Starkey and of Mrs. Starkey, now of Shotteswell, Banbury, Oxon. His mother was a Miss Jephson and is a sister of four O.T.'s and of the late Mrs. Henry Hilary. Thus he was a nephew of the late Henry Hilary, for thirty-seven years Senior Mathematical Master of Tonbridge School. Two of his first cousins have given their lives in the war, Mr. Hilary's eldest son, 2nd Lt. Henry Jephson Hilary, R.F.A. (D.B. 1887 —94), who was vice-chairman of the Calcutta Port Trust and a member of the Bengal Legislative Council, and who died of wounds on June 3rd, 1917, and Capt. E. J. Jephson, Norfolk Regt. (D.B. 1899— 1904), who was killed in action on September 15th, 1916. His younger brother, Lt. Kenelm Digby Starkey, Suffolk Regt. (S.R.) (D.B. 1902—3), enlisted in 1914 in the 19th (2nd Public Schools) Battn. of the Royal Fusiliers, and though he obtained his commission in May, 1915, he was never passed as fit for service abroad. Entering the school in September, 1901, from the Rev. Reginald Bull's School, St. Andrew's, Southborough, D. M. Starkey left, whilst still young, from the Upper Fifth in July, 1903, and with his younger brother was afterwards at Berkhamsted. From 1905 to 1910 he was in the Union of London and Smith's Bank, and was subsequently an Assistant Master at Mr. B. E. Clark's School, Elm House, Surbiton, with the exception of one or two terms, when he was temporarily an Assistant Master at his old Preparatory School, at Southborough. ' In December, 1915, he joined the Inns of Court O.T.C., and then in the following December joined the 11th Battn. of the Royal Sussex Regiment as a signaller. With this Battalion he went out to France just after Christmas, 1916, and though recommended for a commission remained as a signaller with his Battalion in France far some fifteen months. On March 21st, 1918, the first day of the great German offensive, he was reported " missing," and, though it is now definitely reported that he was killed in action on that day, there is still no certainty as to where he met his death and was buried. It appears to have been somewhere between Bellicourt and Roisel, east of Peronne.