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236479

Pte. Herbert Stirman

British Army 1st Btn. Devonshire Regiment

from:Handsworth, Birmingham

(d.15th April 1917)

Private Herbert Stirman was born in Huddersfield, where his parents lived briefly during their long journey from Edingthorpe in Norfolk, via Newark in Nottinghamshire eventually settling in Birmingham - they came from a long line of agricultural labourers and all eventually settled in the Midlands with new industrial trades.

There are few details of Herbert's service, but his final journey was on HT Arcadian, going from Salonika to Alexandria when it was torpedoed by a German submarine in the Aegean Sea on 15 April 1917, the ship sank in 6 minutes. There were over 1300 troops and crew on this ship, but 277 perished, including Herbert, listed as drowned at sea. He is commemorated at Mikra Memorial Cemetery in Thessaloniki, Greece. He was 34 years old.



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