Lt. Col. Bataan KIA Medal grouping

[Thrifter_01]

Found in the local flea market I usually visit, this Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal belong to Lt. Colonel Allan E. Smith, part of Brig Gen Clifford Bluemels staff, an FA officer who was stationed on Bataan with them. He would be killed on April 12, 1942 on the Bataan Death March. He is laid to rest in Del Rio, Texas.

 

 

Part of the grouping includes a framed case with both his engraved PH and BSM. Along with a framed PH document and letter from Robert P. Patterson. His PH was given on March 12, 1943. He was awarded his Bronze Star for Bataan on War Dept Go # 91 of 1946. His PH is numbered on the side with 437025 or 487025. 

 

[Thrifter_01]

Thanks to @KASTAUFFER and @GatorDoc for helping with information on this officer.

[katieony]

A rare group, thank you for sharing it!

[Marshallj]

and a little about his wife...

 

When Charlotte Mey was born on 6 January 1896, in Texas, United States, her father, Edward Von Mey, was 44 and her mother, Ella Emily Strickland, was 23. She married Allen Eugene Smith on 25 April 1930, in Vigo, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Fort Ethan Allen, Chittenden, Vermont, United States in 1930 and Sharon Township, Franklin, Ohio, United States in 1940. She died on 8 January 1988, at the age of 92, and was buried in Westlawn Cemetery, Del Rio, Val Verde, Texas, United States.

[Hermanus]

Great find.

 

regards

Herman

[Thrifter_01]

Bumping this up in memory of Lt. Col. Allen Smith.