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Capt. James Thomas Starkie MC.
British Army Royal Army Medical Corps

James Starkie served in the Boer War and the Great War. In 1917 he was serving as a sergeant on the hospital ship Britannic when it truck a mine in the Mediteranean and sunk. It had on board wounded British soldiers. James Starkie was the last person to leave the sinking ship after going below to collect bread for those in the lifeboats. He was promoted to Captain and awarded the Military Cross. He later went on to serve in Ceylon before his service came to an end. He retired with his family to Aldershot where he died in 1953.

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