Eight: Corporal A. L. Lunniss, (Queen’s Westminsters) King’s Royal Rifle Corps and Royal Army Service Corps

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R. (Allan Lawrence Lunniss); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (6896226 Rfn., K.R.R.C.) mounted for display; Greece, War Medal 1941-45, unnamed, nearly extremely fine (8) £140-180

I.S.M. London Gazette 11 August 1981, correction 20 November 1981. ‘... to the following officers on their retirement.’ ‘Lunniss Allan Lawrence, Examiner B. [Ministry of Defence]’.

Allan Lawrence Lunniss was born in Edmonton, Hornsey, Middlesex. Before the war he was employed as a Supervisor for Outdoor Advertising, also served in the 1st Battalion Queen’s Westminsters (K.R.R.C.). Called up for military service, 2 September 1939, he was posted to the R.A.S.C. Private Lunniss, R.A.S.C. was transferred to the Army Reserve on 10 March 1946.

Sold with recipient’s I.S.M. award document and associated letter; Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Soldier’s Release Book; Certificate of Transfer to the Army Reserve; National Registration Identity Card; National Health & pensions Insurance Member’s Record Card; portrait photograph in military uniform; Dinner and Dance Program, First Battalion Queen’s Westminsters (K.R.R.C.), Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone, 7 December 1939 - this bearing a number of signatures; Health Memoranda for Soldiers booklet; card recording recipient’s crossing of the equator; Service of Remembrance and Dedication Italy, 11th Battalion K.R.R.C. Queen’s Westminsters, 2 June 1944, pamphlet; together with copied research.