Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Corporal J. Allen, Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (5570272 Cpl., R.A.O.C.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed; together with a 1939-45 Star, unnamed, extremely fine (3) £140-180

The medals sold with original National Service Enlistment Notice; Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Record Book for All Arms Regular Army at Home; Certificate of Discharge, all relating to 5951465 Private Jack Allen, 7th Battalion Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. Jack Allen was born in Woodford Bridge, Essex on 15 May 1919. A Machinist by occupation, he enlisted into the 7th Battalion Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (T.A.) at Ipswich on 18 January 1940. He was discharged on 22 September 1940 ‘Ceasing to fulfil Army Physical Requirements’.

Also with a 1943 Christmas and New Year Greetings (paper) card, from 5570272 Private J. Allen, H.Q. Coy., 7 B.O.D., P.A.I. (Persia and Iraq) Force, to his mother, ‘Mrs E. A. Allen, “Brampton”, 68 Marlborough Road, South Woodford, Essex, England.’ Together with a related photograph. The relationship between the ‘J. Allen’ of the Korea medals and those of the paperwork is unknown. For other medals to the ‘Allen’ family see lots 952 and 1018.