20 September 2009

Captain William Ernest Wanstall Beerling, Indian Army Ordnance Corps

Captain William Ernest Wanstall Beerling of the Indian Army Ordnance Corps died on 20th September 1941. He was born in Kent but living in Dundee when he enlisted. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he was 38 years old when he died and was the son of William and Kate Beerling and the husband of Gladys Harald Beerling of Broughty Ferry, Angus.

William Beerling died in India and is buried in Delhi War Cemetery; grave reference 1.A.9.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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