Hello Irene, Most likely your ancestor belonged to a sub branch of the Royal Artillery known as Royal Field Artillery (RFA). From what information you give it is possible that the "3rd Northumbrian Brigade" that you refer to may be CCLII ( III Northumbrian ) Brigade RFA. They with other certain Royal Artillery units formed Divisional Artillery for 50th (Northumbrian) Division which was a Territorial Force Division first formed in 1908, it moved to France on 16th April 1915 and served on the Western Front for the whole duration of WW1. Some units of the Divisional Artillery had slightly mixed fortunes and by 20th January 1917 III Northumbrian Brigade RFA had been broken up. Do you (or your husband or his family) have any other service medals belonging to George Allen?, if so look around the outer rim (or on the back in the case of a Star) and you will see his service number and unit details this will help you identify which George Allen to search for on the medal rolls. You say he had a wooden leg, (when he played in the band in 1939) was this caused during his service in WW1, if so he will have been awarded a Silver Wound Badge during his discharge. Each SWB had a serial number and you can also track your man or find his SWB serial number. He may (or of course may not) also have been awarded a disability pension. If you have enough information it may be just possible to also find a citation for his MM, HOWEVER don't get your hopes up, sad though it may be MMs were issued by the handful, this is not to dismiss the value or bravery of the men who received a MM but during WW1 it is a fact of life that MMs came up with the rations sometimes. Hope this may have been some help Best Regards Peter Fellowes ----- Original Message ----- From: <irene.marlborough@syngenta.com> To: <ENG-DURHAM-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 3:42 PM Subject: [ENG-DUR] Northumbrian Brigade > My husband's great grandfather George ALLEN won the Military Medal for > bravery in World War I. > > I would like to get the medal record from Documents Online but there are a > lot of George ALLENs on the list. The information I have is that he served > in the 3rd Northumbrian Brigade. Does anybody know what regiment this would > be? > > George ALLEN played the trombone in the Seaham Colliery band and played the > lodge into Durham for the big meeting up to 1939 despite having a wooden > leg. I would like to know more about this ancestor. > > Thanks, > > Irene > > > ==== ENG-DURHAM Mailing List ==== > Durham GenWeb Host > http://www.rootsweb.com/~engdur/ > >