Auction Catalogue

31 March 2010

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 636

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31 March 2010

Hammer Price:
£95

Three: Private J. Allison, Scottish Rifles, late King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who was twice wounded in action

1914-15 Star (12921 Pte. J. Allison, K.O. Sco. Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (12921 Pte. J. Allison, K.O.S.B.), generally good very fine (3) £80-100

John Allison was born in Fifeshire and enlisted in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers in August 1914, aged 20 years. Posted to the 6th Battalion, he first entered the French theatre of war in May 1915, and received a gunshot wound in his face on 3 September of the same year, shortly before his unit was decimated in an attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt in the battle of Loos. Rejoining his unit, he was quickly back in action on the Somme, where he was again wounded during his unit’s attack on Bernafey Wood on 3-4 July 1916 - this time by a gun shot wound in the left thigh and foot. On being discharged from a hospital in Rouen in the following month, Allison transferred to the 1st Battalion, Scottish Rifles, in which capacity he appears to have served until being discharged in Edinburgh in December 1918; sold with copied service record.