commando ,burma

looking for any info on Islwyn j r alderman

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Hi JD,

May I ask what relation, if any, you are to Islwyn Alderman? I see you are from Glamorganshire so I'm guessing you are a relative?

The information we have is that Islwyn J R 'Jake' Alderman served with the Welch Regt before joining No.1 Commando.

http://www.commandoveterans.org/1CommandoNomRollA-C

Nick

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hello Nic Islwyn is my uncle ,I am in touch with son J L & P M alderman in Australia who has his medals , she cant find the his reg number on them ,I intend to find to see if I can obtain a record of where he went ,his pals perhaps. any to do with Islwyn....jd

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Hi JD,

If you look at the link I sent you it will take you to part of the No.1 Commando nominal Roll that we compiled. Islwyn's regimeal number is on that.

During WWII, no campaign medals were engraved with names or numbers..
Islwyn's next of kin can apply to the MoD for a scan of his original, handwritten service record - the MoD are the only custodian of WWII Records. Don't bother with any other online geneology website such as Forces War Records - they will not hold them.
For background of what Islwyn experienced have a look here...

http://www.commandoveterans.org/1Commando

Nick

hello Nic thankyou for the info, saved me a lot of wasted time searching,,would there be photograph's of complete units ,remember seeing a very long picture hanging front room around 1950 ? any way thanks...jd

http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/units/1/

Browse the No1 Commando album in the Gallery. See link above.
Click on the thumbnail to open the image, then again to enlarge.

Happy browsing...

Nick

Hi JD

The long photo you referred to very well may have been the panorama photo of No1 taken in Winchester just before they went overseas to Burma, I have actually got an original version of this photo and it is approx 36" long. As you will see if you follow the link there is also a numbered version to enable you to pin point any individuals for ID purposes. (see link)

http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/units/1/panorama/

Cheers Andy

jd,

Just had a message from a friend whose father was also in No.1 Commando and who was a friend of Jake.

Would you like to make contact?

Nick

hello Nick , really sorry about the delay in response, I have a photo of one reunion with jake in it dated 1953 . from the co-ordinator of commando's reunions who sent the photograph to his ( daughter) who was searching for Islwyn (Jake) Its quite a long story to this this was in 2009. It all started when doing the family tree . Jake might have not known . Would love to make contact with friend of jake, thankyou , john.