John Allan Maling

John Allan Maling MC (13 February 1920 – 16 December 2012) was a British Army officer during the Second World War who won the Military Cross for his action in Algeria. Ordered to defend a strategically important road junction, Maling and his platoon destroyed a number of German tanks and killed 40-50 of the enemy at a cost of only one casualty on their side. After the war he trained as a doctor at St Thomas's Hospital, and then worked as a general practitioner in Tunbridge Wells.[1]

Not to be confused with John Darwin Maling DSO MC of the Sikh Light Infantry.

He was the son of George Allan Maling, VC.

References
  1. Dr John Maling. The Telegraph, 7 January 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2015.


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