7898 Pte Issachar Allen, 1st Bn, DCLI

7898 Private Issachar Allen of the 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, was killed in action on the 21st October 1914. He was born in West Bromwich, lived in West Bromwich and enlisted at Cornwall around February or March 1904. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial in France.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission adds no additional information about this man but we can see from other sources that his birth was registered in the December quarter of 1881 and he was therefore probably 32 years old when he died. He had been in France with the 1st DCLI since the 21st August 1914 and was almost certainly on the Army Reserve when war was declared.

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