diff --git a/hapi-fhir-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/util/BundleBuilder.java b/hapi-fhir-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/util/BundleBuilder.java
index 7e3c568663e..657c3f23cc4 100644
--- a/hapi-fhir-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/util/BundleBuilder.java
+++ b/hapi-fhir-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/util/BundleBuilder.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import ca.uhn.fhir.context.BaseRuntimeChildDefinition;
 import ca.uhn.fhir.context.BaseRuntimeElementDefinition;
 import ca.uhn.fhir.context.FhirContext;
 import ca.uhn.fhir.context.RuntimeResourceDefinition;
+import ca.uhn.fhir.model.primitive.IdDt;
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.Validate;
 import org.hl7.fhir.instance.model.api.IBase;
 import org.hl7.fhir.instance.model.api.IBaseBackboneElement;
@@ -194,6 +195,45 @@ public class BundleBuilder {
 		return new CreateBuilder(request);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Adds an entry containing a delete (DELETE) request.
+	 * Also sets the Bundle.type value to "transaction" if it is not already set.
+	 *
+	 * Note that the resource is only used to extract its ID and type, and the body of the resource is not included in the entry,
+	 *
+	 * @param theResource The resource to delete.
+	 */
+	public void addTransactionDeleteEntry(IBaseResource theResource) {
+		String resourceType = myContext.getResourceType(theResource);
+		String idPart = theResource.getIdElement().toUnqualifiedVersionless().getIdPart();
+		addTransactionDeleteEntry(resourceType, idPart);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Adds an entry containing a delete (DELETE) request.
+	 * Also sets the Bundle.type value to "transaction" if it is not already set.
+	 *
+	 * @param theResourceType The type resource to delete.
+	 * @param theIdPart  the ID of the resource to delete.
+	 */
+	public void addTransactionDeleteEntry(String theResourceType, String theIdPart) {
+		setBundleField("type", "transaction");
+		IBase request = addEntryAndReturnRequest();
+		IdDt idDt = new IdDt(theIdPart);
+		
+		// Bundle.entry.request.url
+		IPrimitiveType<?> url = (IPrimitiveType<?>) myContext.getElementDefinition("uri").newInstance();
+		url.setValueAsString(idDt.toUnqualifiedVersionless().withResourceType(theResourceType).getValue());
+		myEntryRequestUrlChild.getMutator().setValue(request, url);
+
+		// Bundle.entry.request.method
+		IPrimitiveType<?> method = (IPrimitiveType<?>) myEntryRequestMethodDef.newInstance(myEntryRequestMethodChild.getInstanceConstructorArguments());
+		method.setValueAsString("DELETE");
+		myEntryRequestMethodChild.getMutator().setValue(request, method);
+	}
+
+
+
 	/**
 	 * Adds an entry for a Collection bundle type
 	 */
@@ -251,6 +291,16 @@ public class BundleBuilder {
 		return request;
 	}
 
+	public IBase addEntryAndReturnRequest() {
+		IBase entry = addEntry();
+
+		// Bundle.entry.request
+		IBase request = myEntryRequestDef.newInstance();
+		myEntryRequestChild.getMutator().setValue(entry, request);
+		return request;
+
+	}
+
 
 	public IBaseBundle getBundle() {
 		return myBundle;
diff --git a/hapi-fhir-base/src/test/java/ca/uhn/fhir/validation/PlaceholderTest.java b/hapi-fhir-base/src/test/java/ca/uhn/fhir/validation/PlaceholderTest.java
index f757cc2b801..5d5b2820135 100644
--- a/hapi-fhir-base/src/test/java/ca/uhn/fhir/validation/PlaceholderTest.java
+++ b/hapi-fhir-base/src/test/java/ca/uhn/fhir/validation/PlaceholderTest.java
@@ -11,5 +11,4 @@ public class PlaceholderTest {
 	public void testPass() {
 		// nothing
 	}
-	
 }
diff --git a/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/5_4_0/2571-add-delete-to-bundle-builder.yaml b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/5_4_0/2571-add-delete-to-bundle-builder.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6da48fc802c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/5_4_0/2571-add-delete-to-bundle-builder.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+type: fix
+issue: 2571
+title: "Added support for deleting resources to BundleBuilder via method `addTransactionDeleteEntry`."
diff --git a/hapi-fhir-structures-r4/src/test/java/ca/uhn/fhir/util/BundleBuilderTest.java b/hapi-fhir-structures-r4/src/test/java/ca/uhn/fhir/util/BundleBuilderTest.java
index 22bf634d525..e31bbc9fbd0 100644
--- a/hapi-fhir-structures-r4/src/test/java/ca/uhn/fhir/util/BundleBuilderTest.java
+++ b/hapi-fhir-structures-r4/src/test/java/ca/uhn/fhir/util/BundleBuilderTest.java
@@ -156,6 +156,36 @@ public class BundleBuilderTest {
 		assertEquals(Bundle.HTTPVerb.POST, bundle.getEntry().get(0).getRequest().getMethod());
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void testAddEntryDelete() {
+		BundleBuilder builder = new BundleBuilder(myFhirContext);
+
+		Patient patient = new Patient();
+		patient.setActive(true);
+		patient.setId("123");
+		builder.addTransactionDeleteEntry(patient);
+		builder.addTransactionDeleteEntry("Patient", "123");
+		Bundle bundle = (Bundle) builder.getBundle();
+
+		ourLog.info("Bundle:\n{}", myFhirContext.newJsonParser().setPrettyPrint(true).encodeResourceToString(bundle));
+
+		assertEquals(Bundle.BundleType.TRANSACTION, bundle.getType());
+		assertEquals(2, bundle.getEntry().size());
+
+		//Check the IBaseresource style entry
+		assertNull(bundle.getEntry().get(0).getResource());
+		assertEquals("Patient/123", bundle.getEntry().get(0).getRequest().getUrl());
+		assertEquals(Bundle.HTTPVerb.DELETE, bundle.getEntry().get(0).getRequest().getMethod());
+
+		//Check the resourcetype + id style entry.
+		assertNull(bundle.getEntry().get(1).getResource());
+		assertEquals("Patient/123", bundle.getEntry().get(1).getRequest().getUrl());
+		assertEquals(Bundle.HTTPVerb.DELETE, bundle.getEntry().get(1).getRequest().getMethod());
+
+
+
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	public void testAddEntryCreateConditional() {
 		BundleBuilder builder = new BundleBuilder(myFhirContext);