A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties

The Memorial Plaque bestowed upon Second Lieutenant L. J. M. Allen, Wiltshire Regiment, late London Regiment, who was killed in action during the Battle of the Somme on 2 July 1916

Memorial Plaque (Lawrence John Maynard Allen) in card envelope, polished, very fine £70-£90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties.

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Provenance: Acquired by the vendor directly from the recipient’s family.

Lawrence John Maynard Allen was born in Brixton, London, and attested initially for the London Regiment on 12 October 1914, serving with the Expeditionary Force in Malta from 23 December 1914 to 6 August 1915. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Wiltshire Regiment on 14 August 1915 and served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 25 December 1915. He was killed in action on the second day of the Battle of the Somme, 2 July 1916, on which date the Battalion was in action at Ovillers-la-Boisselle. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

Sold with a portrait photograph of the recipient and other family photographs; and copied research.