Saturday 24 April 2010

Lt Henry Edward Allen, West African Frontier Force

Lt Henry Edward Allen of the Gambia Company, West African Frontier Force, drowned on the 24th April 1917. He was 48 years old, the son of the late William E. and Anne Allen, of Greenford, Middlesex. Henry Allen has no known grave and is commemorated on the Hollybrook Memorial in Southampton.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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