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Allan Noel Minns

1891–1921

United Kingdom

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Allan Noel Minns, DSO, MC, (23 March 1891 – 6 April 1921) was an English medical doctor of African-Caribbean descent who served as an officer in the British Army during the First World War. He was born in Thetford, Norfolk in 1891, the son of the Bahamian Allan Glaisyer Minns and Emily née Pearson. His father was a doctor and later mayor of Thetford, the first black man to be the mayor of an English town.

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