Allan Noel Minns, DSO, MC, was an English doctor of African 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 Pearson. His father was a doctor and later mayor of Thetford, the first black man to be the mayor of an English town. Educated at Thetford Grammar School, Allan junior followed his father by attending Guy's Hospital, qualifying as a doctor in 1914. He died at Thetford on 6 April 1921, following a motor accident, and is buried in Thetford Cemetery.