Name
Francis Alexander Allam
1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/11/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
25420
Northamptonshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
O. I. H. 8.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Borehamwood Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Borehamwood, Not on the Elstree memorials
Pre War
Francis Alexander Allam was born in early 1888 in Camden Town, St Pancras to Edwin Allam, a carpet planner, and Elizabeth Mary (nee Skeats). Their address at the time of Francis’s baptism (22 Apr 1888) was Arlington Road. On the 1891 Census the family were living at 92 Yeldham Road, Fulham. By the 1901 Census Francis was a boarder together with his widower father and younger brother Edwin James. His mother had died in 1895.
Francis married Ethel Allam, (nee Clarke) in 1910 and on the 1911 Census they were living at 5 Drayton Road, Borehamwood. Francis was a Bookstall Manager for W H Smith. There were two children, Ernest William Allam, born 8 Sep 1911, Died 1969 and Phyllis Elizabeth Allam, born 14 Mar 1914.
Wartime Service
Francis enlisted sometime around 1915 (He is listed on Electoral Rolls in 1914 at Borehamwood) as Private 25420 in the Northamptonshire Regiment and was posted to 6th Battalion which as part of 18 (Eastern) Division had been in France since 1915.
The 6th Battalion were engaged in the successful capture of the Schwaben Redoubt during the Battle of the Ancre Heights (1 Oct 1916 to 11 Nov 1916). Francis was wounded during this Battle and following evacuation to No 5 General Hospital, Rouen, he died on 8 Nov 1916.
Additional Information
Newspaper reporting of him recorded him as "of Elstree". War Gratuity of £3 and arrears of £2 19s 3d was paid to his widow. His younger brother Edwin James Howard Allam, served in Royal Garrison Artillery as Gunner 66703 and died of wounds on 31 Jul 1916.
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams, Neil Cooper, Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild, Taff Williams,
