Joseph Durling

   Another name for Joseph was Darling.⁵

  Research Notes:

resided in Wickham Green and Birmingham, occupation Gardener. Royal West Surrey Regt. Won the M.M. in 1918 during WW 1 "for keeping on to his work at a Lewis gun for two days after being wounded in the left leg. He was the only survivor of nine men. Later also wounded in the right leg"

Possibly had a child called
iRichard DURLING, b. -- --- 1916, d. 13 FEB 1944 in Italy, occupation Golf Pro. Royal Sussex Regiment. Killed at village of Caira near to Monte Castellino in WW2 on 13 Feb 1944. Had been assistant golf pro to Henry Cotton at Langley Park Golf Club. We do not know that his father was Joseph - it might have been Arthur, Herbert or Sydney. He married unknown (=R.DURLING).

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  Noted events in his life were:

• Census UK: Scholar, aged 6, 1891, Pix Park, Sussex Rd., West Wickham, Kent, England. ⁶

• Census UK: House & Garden Boy Domestic, aged 16, 1901, Sussex Road, West Wickham, Kent, England. ^{1 3} @ home, aged 16

Joseph married Ethel May Percival about Mar 1911.^{1 2} (Ethel May Percival was born on 28 Mar 1890 in West Wickham, Kent, England ^{1 7} and died about Jan 1987 in Solihull South, West Midlands, England ^{1 8}.)