- SURNAME
Winning
- FORENAME
Norman Isaac
- UNIT
2/5 Independent Company + 2/8 Commando Squadron (C.O.)
- RANK
Captain + Major
- NUMBER
NX65553
- AWARD
Member of the British Empire, Mention in Despatches (x2)
- PLACE
New Guinea 1942 (MiD x2) Bougainville 1945 (MBE)
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 27.5.1906 Oban, Argyllshire, Scotland
son of Isaac and Eliza Clark (nee Greenlees) Winning
educated Troon, Ayrshire
apprentice in shipping company
employed, Anglo-Dutch firm, Pamanoekan en Tjiasemlanden as planter in Java
married Georgie Nell Morris Taylor (no children)
moved to Sydney, Australia
enlisted AIF 9.9.1940 Paddington, New South Wales
1st Cavalry Training Squadron (to T/Warrant Officer)
commissioned December 1941
2/4 Independent Company (Lt)
Captain March 1942
2/5 Independent Company
2/4 Cavalry Commando Squadron (2IC) Nov.1943
Far Eastern Liaison Office April 1944
Major 8.7.1944
2/8 Commando Squadron (C.O.) July 1944
discharged 27.9.1945 (ALH Commando Units)
clerk, Sydney
manager, Sumurbarang estate for P. and T.
shot by terrorists 2/3.12.1950 near Subang, Java
buried in local cemetery
Last edited by a moderator:
