Personal Number: 390537 Service Number: 21009003 Rank: Second Lieutenant Name: James Alston MCPHERSON Unit: Irish Guards London Gazette : 31 August 1948 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38392/page/4769/data.pdf I G'ds . 21009003 Cadet James Alston MCPHERSON (390537) to be 2nd Lt , 12th June 1948. London Gazette : 20 May 1949 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38615/supplement/2463/data.pdf I. G'ds. Short Service. Commns. 2nd Lt. James Alston MCPHERSON (390537) from Emerg. Commn. to be 2nd Lt., 1st Feb. 1949, with seniority 12th June 1948.