I am totally stumped trying to find out about this man! He appears on our BB War Memorial in Leith, Edinburgh meaning he was a member of the company. I don't have him on the old BB register but there is an annoying gap just when some of the men who fought in WW2 would have enrolled.
There is only one John Alston showing on the Scottish National War Memorial. He died 19/7/1945 of beriberi in Sumatra. He has no middle initial showing and his parents are from Rothesay so that seems unlikely.
On the Commonwealth War Grave site there are two other John Alstons listed. One is the husband of Elizabeth Alston from Skerton Lancaster. He was age 34 and in the Coldtream Guards. He died 10/12/1943.
The other is John Scott Alston, age 23, d 3/9/1944. He served with The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey). Son of William and Mabel Alston, Winchmore Hill, Middlesex. He would be right age wise to be in that missing section of register but was born in Oxfordshire in 1921. Could there be a family connection to Edinburgh and how could I find out?
And if he is none of these men - how on earth can I find out who he is?? There were three other John S Alstons born in Scotland around the right time. Two died young and I couldn't trace what happened to the other.
This is for a memorial book I am making up and he is one of only two men I haven't been able to find out about so far - most annoying!
