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Descripción : British War Medal 1914-20 (659 Cpl. Allon, 1/K.A.R.) contact marks, good fine £50-£70 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, September 2006. K.A.R. D.C.M. Nyasaland Gazette 30 March 1918. ‘659 L/Cpl. Allan (note different spelling), 2/1 K.A.R.’ ‘For conspicuous gallantry in action at Lukulezi, Portuguese East Africa on 28th January 1918. Lance-Corporal Allan was one of a patrol returning to camp with a wounded man. The patrol was attacked, two more men being wounded. In getting out these two men, the original wounded man was left behind. Lance-Corporal Allan returned under fire from about 80 yards and carried the wounded man about a quarter of a mile and hid him. He then followed the patrol into camp, returned with a hammock and brought him in’. Allon enlisted in the 1st Battalion, King’s African Rifles, on 2 December 1913 at Angoni, and served with “F” Company in Nyasaland during the Great War, being awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his gallantry in Portuguese East Africa. He was promoted Corporal on 11 October 1918, and was discharged on the reduction of the establishment on 31 March 1919. ------ For more information , additional images and to bid on this lot please go to the auctioneers website, www.dnw.co.uk
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