Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Corporal F. R. Allen, Royal Australian Corps of Military Police, late Royal Air Force Police

General Service 1962-2007, 4 clasps, Borneo, Malay Peninsula, South Arabia, Northern Ireland (Q1931107 Cpl. F. R. Allen, R.A.F.), wire clasp rivets; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., Australia (311625 F. R. Allen), good very fine and rare (2) £400-500

Although medal rolls for post-1948 awards are currently not in the public domain, accompanying original documentation confirms the award of 3 of the clasps on the recipient’s General Service Medal 1918-62:

G.S.M. 1962, clasp Borneo: receipt dated at Kuching on 15 April 1965.
South Arabia clasp: receipt (form L/584) dated 2 July 1968.
Northern Ireland clasp: official receipt (form L133/A) DCI S 3/72.

Frank Robert Allen, who was was born in the United Kingdom on 21 February 1942, served in the Royal Air Force Police in the 1960s attaining the rank of Corporal and was present in operations in Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, South Arabia and Northern Ireland. On 20 March 1970, in the United Kingdom, Allen enlisted in the Australian Regular Army and was posted to the Royal Australian Corps of Military Police. He is known to have served at R.A.C.M.P. School, Ingleburn, and served overseas with the A.N.Z.U.K. Provost Unit, at Nee Soon Garrison, Singapore; it was while in Singapore during 1972 that he was forwarded his ‘Northern Ireland’ clasp. Corporal Allen, who was awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal in 1975 (Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 11 February 1975, refers), took his final discharge from the Royal Australian Corps of Military Police on 14 December 1979.