Rupert Sternberg

Second Lieutenant Rupert Oswald Sternberg was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1893, in Chorlton, the son of shipping merchant Siegfried and Louise Sternberg, both originally of Germany. Sternberg attended Charterhouse before continuing his education at Clare College, to study medicine.British Medical Journal, Volume 1916, p. 124.
Sternberg volunteered in September 1914 as an other rank. Trained as a dispatch rider, Sternberg proceded to France a month later and remained on the Western Front until July 1915. He was withdrawn to Britain on obtaining his commission. Sternberg returned to the front in December and succumbed to wounds on 1 July 1916 while serving with the 83rd Battery, Royal Field Artillery.
He is buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Sternberg, Rupert Oswald, cwgc.org. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
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