Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Allan Perry, Royal Army Medical Corps and Principal Civil Medical Officer and Inspector-General of Hospitals, Ceylon

1914-15 Star (Lt. Col. Sir A. Perry. Bt. [sic] R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. Sir A. Perry. Bt. [sic]) mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £180-220

Sir Allan Perry was born on 17 April 1860, the younger son of Isaac Perry Esq., and was educated privately and at the London Hospital Medical College. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1885, before retiring with the rank of Major on 8 December 1897. He served as the Principal Medical Officer and Inspector-General of Hospitals in Ceylon, and was in medical charge of Prisoners of War in Ceylon from 1900-03. Knighted for his services in Ceylon (London Gazette 20 December 1904), he was appointed a Knight Of Grace of the Most Venerable Order of St. John on 11 December 1908. He served during the Great War as Officer Commanding the Harvard Surgical Unit, whilst attached to the Royal Army Medical Corps with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, in France from 17 July 1915 until 25 October 1917.
Sir Allan married Miss Agnes Flynn, the younger daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel J. Flynn, Army Ordnance Corps, in 1886. He died without issue on 17 December 1929.

Note: Although Sir Allan’s Great War Medals accord him the title of a Baronet, it was the honour of Knighthood, rather than a Baronetage, that he received in 1904. No Baronetcy has ever been granted to someone with the name Perry.