Sergeant Ralph Barney (Barnabas) STARTUP, L/8251, 6th Battalion., Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France,  5th August 1916, age 29.

*16th September 1884, born West Malling, Maidstone, Kent, son of the William Anthony & Eliza Mulcock Startup (Barton). *birth registered as Barton.

1911 Census - Military, India - Ralph Barry Startup, Private, age 25, single, 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, Soldier, born Maidstone, Kent.

24th August 1915, Christ Church, Lower Birling, Kent, married Beatrice Bertha May Morgan, (born 17th March 1895), 8, Rosslyn Cottages, Ham Hill, Snodland, Kent.

Children - Lily May Startup, born 25th January 1916, West Malling, Kent.

Enlisted Maidstone Kent.

8th November 1914, posted BEF.

1928 September, Malling Registration District, Beatrice Bertha May Startup married William A Burden.

Commemorated Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 11 C, Somme, France;  St. John the Baptist Church, Halling, Kent, East Malling Green Kent and at The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, West Malling, Kent.