{"id":3126,"date":"2018-05-05T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T11:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2018-09-07T05:24:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T05:24:27","slug":"rifleman-arthur-oscar-berling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/05\/rifleman-arthur-oscar-berling\/","title":{"rendered":"Rifleman Arthur Oscar Berling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We recently received a note recently from Richard Berling about his grandfather Arthur, who was killed during September 1917.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3127 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/berling-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/berling-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/berling-e1536297720315-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/berling.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;My grandfather was listed as a rifleman who died whilst serving with the London Irish Rifles. He died on the 2nd September 1917 at Ypres and is buried at Mont Huon Military Cemetery. His regimental number was 6924 later 593990.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Rifleman BERLING, ARTHUR OSCAR<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Service Number\u00a0593990<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Died 02\/09\/1917<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Aged 35<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">18th Bn.\u00a0 London Regiment (London Irish Rifles)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Son of Andrew Berling, of 15, Albert Square, Clapham, London; husband of Dora Annie Berling, of 9, Rue Fontaine, Paris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>We only have one photo of him within the family and if it is of any interest for your archive collection I enclose it for your consideration. The reason for my grandmother\u2019s French address is that two of her sisters had married Frenchmen and when she received news of her husband\u2019s wounds she went across to France. I was wondering if someone within the Association can help me with another small matter. I enclose a poor photo taken many years ago of an honour roll and on the original I can just make out the name Berling A O. Years ago I was told it was taken at the Chelsea HQ long before it\u2019s redevelopment? &#8220;<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3139 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/P1050296-Copy-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/P1050296-Copy-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/P1050296-Copy-768x677.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/P1050296-Copy.jpg 871w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3146 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/P1050296-3-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/P1050296-3-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/P1050296-3.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Quis Separabit.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently received a note recently from Richard Berling about his grandfather Arthur, who was killed during September 1917. &#8220;My grandfather was listed as a rifleman who died whilst serving with the London Irish Rifles. He died on the 2nd September 1917 at Ypres and is buried at Mont Huon Military Cemetery. His regimental number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-world-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3651,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions\/3651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}