In Memory Of

PALING, JOHN EBBLEWHITE

Service Details
Age:
 30
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 353566
Rank:
 Captain
Regiment:
 East African Army Service Corps
Date of Death:
 1942-10-06
Cause of Death:
 Died on active service
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 E. 13.
Cemetery:
 GILGIL WAR CEMETERY
Country:
 Kenya
Additional Information
Son of Robert and Eleanor Ann Paling, of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. From The Nottinghamian December 1942: The younger of two brothers at the School, he showed much promise as a half-back at Rugby football, where in spite of a somewhat frail build and diminutive size, he was a tireless worker and a deadly tackler. He had been in Africa for some years