Service Details
Name:
 REDFERN
Given Name:
 ALAN GARDINER
Initials:
 A G
Service No:
 291976
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 King's Royal Rifle Corps
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Unit 2:
 and Long Range Desert Group.
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Date of Death:
 1943-11-12
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Age:
 37
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Leros. He was killed in action instantly by machine gun fire on Leros whilst leading a composite LRDG and SBS party in a close struggle with 500 German parachutists who had been dropped on the narrow strip between Gurna and Alinda bays.
Decorations:
 M B E
Citations:
 LG Sup 1 January 1943 pg. 12 - "For running commando training courses in Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia"
Additional
Information:
Son of Arthur William and Margaret A. Redfern of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia; husband of Agnes Opal Redfern, of Salisbury.
Commemoration
Country:
 Greece
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Cemetery:
 LEROS WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 3. C. 9.

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