Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Great War pair awarded to Sergeant W. E. Allen, Machine Gun Corps, late R.N.A.S. Armoured Cars

British War and Victory Medals (79680 Sjt. W. E. Allen, M.G.C.), together with an R.N.A.S. Armoured Car sweetheart’s brooch, bronze and enamel, good very fine or better (3) £200-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Ron Penhall Collection.

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Walter Edward Allen was born at Cromer, Norfolk, in January 1887 and joined the Royal Naval Air Service (Armoured Car Detachment) as a Petty Officer Mechanic in November 1915. Embarked for Russia at the end of the same year, he returned to the U.K. in March 1916, but rejoined his unit in Russia that June, his official record of service giving his subsequent postings as follows (see ADM 116 1717):

‘August-September 1916: on detached service. Kars; November-December: on detached service in Dobrudsha. Hirsova; December: on detached service at Main Base, Odessa; 16 July 1917: left Tiraspol Base for service in Galicia. Proskorov; 13 September: left Proskorov Base for Kursk; 10 October: awarded Silver Breast Medal with Stanislaus ribbon for hard work; 12 November: arrived in England; 18 January 1918: transferred to M.G. Corps.’

His MIC entry verifies his sole entitlement to the British War and Victory Medals, as does the equivalent R.N. roll (ADM. 171/94).