Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Gunner C. L. J. Allen, Royal Horse Artillery, later Sergeant, West Yorkshire Police

1914-15 Star (97577 Gnr. C. L. J. Allen. R.H.A.); British War and Victory Medals (656873 Gnr. C. L. J. Allen. R.A.); General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Iraq, N.W. Persia (286100 Gnr. C. L. J. Allen. R.A.); Defence Medal; Police L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (Const. Cyril J. Allen.) very fine and better (6) £240-£280

Cyril Leo James Allen was born at Watford, Hertfordshire, on 8 February 1899 and attested for the Royal Horse Artillery, underage, in 1915. He served with the 37th Division during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 July 1915, and subsequently in Ireland during the period of the Irish Civil War, when he was stationed at Curragh Camp, Dublin. He saw further service with ‘A’ Battery, 36th (Indian) Mixed Brigade, R.H.A. in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and north west Persia, before being discharged in 1922.

Allen joined the Lincolnshire County Police in 1922, transferring to the West Riding Police the following year. Over the next 30 years he was stationed at Wakefield, Pontefract (Mounted Department), Keighley, Harrogate, Knaresborough, and Elescarr. He retired in 1953, and was subsequently employed by the Parks Department at Sewerby Park, Bridlington.

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