A Dictionary of Cromer
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Cromer Servicemen and Servicewomen in the First World War
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Name | William Robert Allen |
Service Information | Joined the Royal Army Service Corps, 11917, 18th May 1915. Transferred to the 1st South Staffordshire Regiment in August 1917. Killed in action on the Passchendaele Ridge on 26th October, 1917, aged 34. Enlisted in London. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 90 to 92 and 162 to 162A |
Date of Birth | 1883 |
Place of Birth | Cromer |
Date of Death | 26/10/1917 |
Source | Cromer War Roll & service record |
 | William Allen in the War Roll, Cromer parish church |