Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R. ‘K. 91802 Sgt. R. M. Allan’, in case of issue, nearly extremely fine £60-£80

Robert Murray Allan was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 5 November 1892, and was commissioned in the 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards, during the Great War, being wounded by shrapnel to the head in June 1918.

Living in Victoria, B.C., and a former Bank Manager, he enlisted on the renewal of hostilities in September 1939, and served in the Canadian Army Corps of Military Staff Clerks, attaining the rank of Sergeant in May 1943. Shortly after, however, he was released as being ‘unable to meet military physical standards’ in November of the same year. He died at Shaughnessy Hospital on 18 January 1946 of general peritonitis and perforation of carcinoma, his death attributed to military service, and was buried in the Vancouver (Mountain View) Cemetery.

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