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Notes taken by John Pikoulis during interviews with former military colleagues of Alun Lewis, who include Selwyn Evans, Colonel Robin S. Creswell, Lieutenant-Colonel Randulph Offley Crewe-Read and Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont of Llantarnam.
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Politician and historian Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, Lord Chalfont, was born in Monmouthshire. He joined the South Wales Borderers at the outbreak of World War II, serving alongside Alun Lewis, and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1940. On 11 November 1964, he was created Baron Chalfont of Llantarnam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alun_Gwynne_Jones,_Baron_Chalfont).
Lieutenant-Colonel Randulph Offley Crewe-Read was one of Alun Lewis's Commanding Officers in the 6th battalion South Wales Borderers, but commanding a separate company from that of Lewis's.
Colonel Robin S. Cresswell was one of Alun Lewis's former Commanding Officers in the 6th Battalion South Wales Borderers.
Alun Lewis befriended Selwyn Evans during his military service (see John Pikoulis: Alun Lewis: A Life (Poetry Wales Press, 1984), p. 145).
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- Jones, Alun Arthur Gwynne, Baron Chalfont of Llantarnam, 1919-2020 (Subject)
- Crewe-Read, Randulph Offley, Lieutenant-Colonel (Subject)
- Cresswell, Robin S., Colonel (Subject)
- Evans, Selwyn, b. 1919 (Subject)