Marcel Amerlinck

Lance Serjeant Marcel Octave Leon Amerlinck was a British soldier of the British Army who died during the Second World War.
He was born in 1917, in Chester-le-Street, the son of Henri and Alice Jane Amerlinck (née Jenkins). His father was a Belgian soldier who succumbed to wounds during the First World War."Bride a Polish Refugee". The Straits Times, 10 March 1940, p. 11.
Amerlinck died on 22 May 1940, during the defence of Arras, while serving in France with the 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards. Shortly before his death, he married Maria Merta, a Polish refugee who had been working on a farm where Amerlinck was billeted. Their marriage was reported to be the first by a soldier of the British Expeditionary Force. Maria moved to Wales and gave birth to a daughter, Halina, who was registered in December. 
He is buried in Arras Communal Cemetery.
==Notes==
==References==
*Amerlinck, Marcel Octave Leon, cwgc.org. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
==External links==
*A photograph of Amerlinck and Maria Merta, pallas.cegesoma.be. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
Category:1917 births
Category:1940 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Belgian descent
Category:Buried in France
Category:Lance Serjeants