In Memory of
Ernest William Starling
Sergeant
623359
Flt. Engr.
463 (R.A.A.F.) Sqdn., Royal Air Force
who died on
Saturday, 29th July 1944. Age 23.
Additional Information:
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Starling, of Swafield, Norfolk.
Commemorative Information
Cemetery:
CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY
Grave Reference/
Panel Number:
1A. B. Coll. grave 7-13.
Location:
Choloy is a village 28 kilometres west of Nancy and 5 kilometres west of Toul, a town
on the N4 road from Paris to Nancy.
The Cemetery is 3 kilometres west of Toul on the north side of the D11B road.
Historical Information:
Choloy War Cemetery was created by the Army Graves Service for the re-burial of
casualties recovered from isolated sites, communal cemeteries, and small
churchyards in north-eastern France where permanent maintenance of the graves was
not possible. In 1950, for the same reason the Commonwealth War Graves
Commission found it necessary to move in to this cemetery more than 100 graves
from a number of churchyards and civil cemeteries in the same area. Those who lie in
Choloy War Cemetery are mostly airmen; but there are also soldiers belonging to the
forces of the United Kingdom who died in the Saar region during the first few months
of the war, i.e. up to May 1940, or as prisoners of war.
There are now over 450, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of
these, over 20 are unidentified.
Copyright The Commonwealth War Graves Commission