STARK, Adolphus Edward

Adolphus was born on the 7th of January 1880 in Newport to William & Harriette (nee MORRIS) STARK who were living at Cyprus Terrace, Adelaide Grove in East Cowes around the time of Adolpus' death. In 1911 at St. Mary’s Church, Carisbrooke he married Marguerite Rosa MOORE & they lived at Prospect Villa, South Mall in Newport.

Adolphus was Lost at Sea on the 2nd of October 1917 when the Drake was torpedoed into the engine room off Rathlin Island at the tip of Northern Ireland by the German submarine U-79 with the loss of 18 out of 900 crew. She did not sink immediately & nearly all the crew rescued.

Adolphus, aged 37, was however, one of those lost; his body was never recovered & so he is commemorated by the Commission upon the Portsmouth Naval Memorial to those Lost at Sea together with nearly 15,000 of his Second World War shipmates.

Adolphus is also remembered on the County, Newport Borough & East Cowes War Memorials.