Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant R. M. Allan, Canadian Army Corps of Military Staff Clerks, late Scots Guards

Canadian Voluntary Service Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45, silver, in damaged card boxes of issue, together with his Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘K. 91802 Sgt. R. M. Allan’, ring suspension, in case of issue, extremely fine (3) £70-90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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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 hostilties in September 1939, and served in the C.A.C.M.S.C., 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. Allan died at Shaughnessy Hospital on 18 January 1946 of general peritonitis and perforation of carcinoma, and was buried in the Vancouver (Mountain View) Cemetery; sold with copied service papers.