Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Gunner W. Allen, Royal Garrison Artillery

1914 Star (30144 Gnr., R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (30144 Gnr., R.A.) B.W.M. with slack suspension, edge bruising, contact marks, good fine and better (3) £60-80

Gunner William Allen, 5th (S) Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 25 September 1914. Later awarded the Silver War Badge. With copied m.i.c. upon which is inscribed and then crossed out, ‘Service prior to 22.8.16 forfeited for desertion.’

For other medals to the ‘Allen’ family see lots 1018 and 1032.