ALEC GEORGE ALDIS
41 (Royal Marine) Commando
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
41 (Royal Marine) Commando embarked from Warsash, Hampshire on the afternoon of 5 June 1944. They were meant to land around 08:45 on D-Day on Queen White sector, Sword Beach, but instead arrived further to the east on Queen Red sector.
Supported by 1st Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment they were to attack the German strongpoint at the west end of Lion-Sur-Mer, and the nearby château. They were also tasked with connecting with 48 (Royal Marine) Commando in order to link Sword Beach with Juno Beach to the west.
He was the Signal Officer and was wounded around the time he landed. He was one of the many wounded who were repatriated back to the UK but later died, so he is buried there.
STORY
This story is shared by the Trust with kind permission from Mavis Williams, Researcher.
Alec George Aldis was born in the September quarter of 1916, in Ramsgate, Kent, the youngest son of Alfred and Edith Vivette Aldis (née Burley). His father, Alfred, was a trawler engineman, most likely employed on the Lowestoft drifter Parmount, which was then hired by the Admiralty in December 1914 and he enrolled in the trawler section of the Royal Naval Reserve (as an Engineman) on 16th December 1914. He and Edith moved to Ramsgate when the vessel was sent to there and he remained with the vessel before transferring to the drifter John Lincoln, also based in Ramsgate. He was demobbed in 1919 and they returned to Lowestoft.
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MEMORIAL LOCATION: Column 1
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