Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Able Seaman E. E. Wallace, Royal Navy
1914-15 Star (193494, E. E. Wallace, A.B. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (193494 E. E. Wallace. A.B. R.N.) minor edge bruise to VM, otherwise nearly extremely fine

Pair: Corporal F. G. Wallace, Royal Marine Light Infantry
British War and Victory Medals (PO. 15647 Cpl. F. G. Wallace. R.M.L.I.) nearly very fine

Three: Sergeant R. A. Allen, Q Services Corps
War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, both officially named ‘86231 R. A. Allen’; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Union of South Africa (Sgt. R. A. Allen Q.S.C.) good very fine (8) £70-£90

Ernest Edward Wallace was born in Chelsea, London in 1881, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 15 April 1897. He served in H.M.S. Anson from 10 December 1898 to 31 January 1900, during which time he was advanced Able Seaman on 27 December 1899. He also saw seagoing service was in H.M.S. Charybdis from 22 April 1902 to 24 March 1905. He joined the Royal Fleet Reserve on 25 November 1905 and served during the Great War in a number of shore establishments before being demobilised on 14 February 1919.

Frederick George Wallace was born in Fareham, Hampshire on 10 July 1892. Raised from infancy by his grandparents in Walthamstowe, Essex, he enlisted in the Royal Marine Light Infantry (Portsmouth Division) at Gosport on 18 February 1910. He saw brief service in the cruiser H.M.S. Europa from January to March 1914 and then on 27 August 1914, shortly after the outbreak of the Great War, he transferred to the Cruiser H.M.S. Sapphire, remaining in her until December 1916. Sapphire served with the Dover Patrol in 1914 and was with the Destroyer Flotilla at the Dardanelles in 1915. During the main Gallipoli landings of 25 April, HMS Sapphire and her sister ship H.M.S. Amethyst were part of the Fourth Squadron, made up of minesweepers. This squadron was attached to the First Squadron and helped to land troops on Y-Beach and then to evacuate them on the next day. He subsequently served with the Portsmouth Division until discharged at the completion of his second period of engagement in July 1931.