STARLING, Alfred Michael Prestwood

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Known as: 
Michael
Rank: 
Corporal
Unit / Base: 
9 Commando
Prior Police Service: 
Birmingham City Police
Regiment/Corps: 
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Service: 
Army
Service Number: 
14241806
Born: 
Friday, November 28, 1919
Died : 
Tuesday, February 14, 1978
Place died: 
Cannock, Staffordshire
Corporal Starling was wounded 3 February 1944 during operations in Italy (Monte Ornito and Monte Faito). He had volunteered for the Commandos as part of the Police Intakes.
  • 1939 Police Constable residing at 29 Carlyle Road, Birmingham.
  • 1958 manager of the Bell Public House, Belbroughton, West Midlands, and member of the Commando Association.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/72.
The 1939 Register covering Birmingham.
Commando Association newsletter 27 (1958).
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 67 (1978).
 
Additional content: 
9 Commando, Overseas
Archive pages : 
No 9 Commando

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