In Memory of
WILLIAM GEORGE STARLING
Private 7630559
Royal Army Ordnance Corps attd., Royal Engineers
who died on
Monday, 14th May 1945. Age 29.
Additional Information:
Son of William and Jessie Starling, of Southsea, Hampshire; husband of Dorothea Grace
Starling, of Milton, Southsea.
Commemorative Information
Cemetery:
PRAGUE WAR CEMETERY, Czech Republic
Grave Reference/
Panel Number:
III. C. 7.
Location:
Prague War Cemetery is, in fact, a British plot adjoining a boundary wall on the north
side
of the Civil Cemetery of Olsany. Olsany is on the eastern outskirts of Prague about 3
kilometres from the centre of the city on the main road from Prague to Strasnice, which
runs due east from Wenceslas Square. The approach to the War Cemetery is the first
turning left from the main road past the entrance gates of the Civil Cemetery.
Historical Information:
Graves were brought into this cemetery from 73 small cemeteries scattered all over the
Czech Republic. Many of those buried here died as Prisoners of War. The construction of
this cemetery was carried out by the Czechoslovak Government, to plans provided by the
Imperial War Graves Commission, under the terms of the War Graves Agreement of 3rd
March, 1949.
Copyright The Commonwealth War Graves Commission