William Bernard Ayling

Conflict:

WW2

Additional Information:

Son of Stanley Vincent and Ida Ayling, of Napier, Hawke's Bay.

References:

CWGC

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

"In a collision between a motor-cycle and a gun tractor on a corner during manoeuvres in the Pahiatua district yesterday Lance-Bombardier William Bernard Ayling, aged 20, received injuries from which he died in hospital shortly afterwards. His mother is Mrs G. Ayling, of Napier. Gunner H. S. Graham, aged 21, whose mother, Mrs M. Graham, lives at Palmerston North, suffered a compound fracture of one leg in the same accident and was taken to hospital."

EVENING POST, VOLUME CXXXV, ISSUE 22, 27 JANUARY 1943, PAGE 3

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Casualty

Service Number:

456013

Name:

William Bernard Ayling

Date of Birth:

Not known

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Unit:

New Zealand Artillery

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Accidental death

Date of Death:

26 January 1943

Day of Death:

Tuesday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW2

Embarkation Details

Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Napier (Park Island) Cemetery

Cemetery Reference:

Ang. Sec., 33. 15.

Cemetery Location:

New Zealand