Three: Stoker Petty Officer R. Allan, Royal Navy, who was killed in action in H.M.S. Shark at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916, on which occasion her Captain was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross

1914-15 Star (282434, R. Allan. S.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (282434 R. Allan. S.P.O. R.N.) naming a little feint to VM, generally very fine (3) £500-£700

Robert Allan was born in Bothwell on 10 October 1875, the son of John Allan of 71 Calder Street, Whifflet, Lanarkshire. He joined the Royal Navy at Portsmouth on 18 April 1908 and served aboard the destroyer H.M.S. Shark as Stoker Petty Officer from 21 March 1914, and was present in the engagement with the German Fleet on the night of 15-16 December 1914 following the raid on Scarborough; witnessing the extensive damage meted out to the destroyer Hardy by the German light cruiser Hamburg, Shark broke off her attack on the enemy ship and resumed station screening the British battlecruisers.

Two years later, Shark served as one of four destroyers of the 4th Flotilla assigned to cover the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron during the Battle of Jutland. At about 6 p.m. she led an unsuccessful torpedo attack on the German 2nd Scouting Group, with Shark firing two torpedoes; crippled by return gunfire and with her fuel pipes and steering gear wrecked, Commander Loftus Jones declined an offer of assistance from the destroyer Acasta - which would have placed Acasta in extreme danger - and continued the fight which led to the sinking of the German torpedo boat SMS V48. The German destroyers then closed on Shark, during which time Loftus Jones lost a leg and witnessed the destruction of his 4-inch gun and bridge. Shortly before 7 p.m. he ordered the ship to be abandoned. In total, 86 men of the 92 aboard Shark were killed. Commander Loftus Jones was later gazetted for a posthumous Victoria Cross in March 1917.

Aged 40 years, Allan is commemorated upon the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.