Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel H. Allan, M.C., Royal Army Medical Corps, late British Red Cross and Order of St. John of Jerusalem

British War and Victory Medals (H. Allan., B.R.C. & St. J.J.) nearly extremely fine (2) £80-£100

M.C. London Gazette 11 July 1940.

Hamish Allan was born in 1896 and was educated at Beadles School, Petersfield, and the University of Glasgow. He served as an Ambulance Driver and Dresser with the 1st British Ambulance Unit, British Red Cross Society during the Great War in Italy, and was wounded in action. Subsequently commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps on 4 September 1939, he served during the Second World War as a Lieutenant-Colonel, being both Mentioned in Despatches for his services in Italy (London Gazette 24 August 1944), and was awarded the Military Cross. During the 1930s he was part-time aviator.

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