Name
Bernard Catling*2 (MC)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/10/1918
37
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Royal Field Artillery
52 Battery, 15th Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Military Cross
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BEAULENCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY, LIGNY-THILLOY
I. C. 22.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Ware Town Memorial, St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware, Christchurch Memorial, Ware, Great Amwell Village Memorial, St John the Baptist Church Memorial, Great Amwell, Not on the Cheshunt memorials *1
Pre War
Born in 1881 in Enfield, Middlesex and baptised on 20 Apr 1881 in St Andrews, Enfield son of Charles Edward and Mary Elizabeth Catling and was living with his parents in Uplands, Warner Road, Ware in 1911.
He was an accountant and single.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in 1915 formerly 452, Gunner in the Honourable Artillery Company, entered Egypt on 21 Apr 1915 and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery on 6 Jul 1916. Military Cross (London Gazette 18 Jan 1918).
He died of wounds in No. 4 Casualty Clearing Station in Beaulencourt, Northern France.
Additional Information
His father, Charles E. Catling, of the Firs, Great Amwell, Herts., Middx. ordered his headstone inscription: "I BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD".
*1 Barnard is also commemorated on the family grave in Cheshunt Burial Ground, his inscription on that headstone reads:
“. . . IN LOVING MEMORY OF CAPT. B CATLING, M.C. R.G.A. WHO DIED OF WOUNDS NEAR BEAULENCOURT OCTOBER 20TH 1918 AGED 37 YEARS."
*2 Appears at Catlin in some official records but as Catling on the above headstone and in other records
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
