Harrogate Herald - 8th August 1917

News has reached Doncaster of the death in action of a well-known local solicitor, Driver John Charles Starkie, youngest son of the Rev Starkie Starkie, a Wesleyan Minister, of Roydfield, Yeadon. Mr Starkie was a driver in the Hon. Artillery Company, and was a member of the firm of Messrs Wallis and Starkie, of Hillgate, Doncaster, and Long Eaton. His eldest brother is a Long Eaton solicitor, and another brother is an accountant in Leeds. The Rev Starkie Starkie was for three years in the Pateley Bridge Wesleyan Circuit, and was stationed at Dacre Banks.