Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Corporal W. J. Allen, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Defence of Kimberley, Orange Free State, Transvaal (5187 Pte. W. Allen, 1st. L.N. Lanc: Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5187 Corpl: W. Allen. L.N. Lanc: Regt.); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘c’, unnamed as issued, lacking integral top riband bar; British War and Victory Medals (37543 Cpl. W. J. Allen. L.N. Lan. R.) good very fine (5) £400-£500

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, July 2011 (when sold without the Kimberley Star).

William James Allen was born in Mile End, London, in 1878 and attested for the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment at London on 11 May 1896. He served with the 1st Battalion in Ceylon from 14 December 1897 to 10 February 1899, and then in South Africa from 11 February 1899 to 17 September 1902. He transferred to the Reserve on 11 May 1903, and was discharged on 10 May 1908, after 12 years’ service. He saw further service with the 3rd Battalion during the Great War from 1917 until being discharged on 11 March 1919.

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