Name
Albert Allen
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/07/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/13742
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 12 D and 13 B
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Fleetville Memorial (Hatfield Rd Cemetery), St Albans (possibly), St Mark’s Church Plaque, Colney Heath, Not on the Hatfield memorials
Pre War
Born Hatfield, Hertfordshire was living at 33 Timion Lane, Hatfield (1901) and 5 Colney Heath, St Albans (1911 to 1915). Occupation was labourer, prior to enlisting:
Wartime Service
Albert enlisted at Mill Hill on 19th July 1915. His sign up papers show that he was just over 19 years old, however the 1911 census declares that he was 13 years old at the time of the census. Therefore, at the date he signed up he would have been only 17 years old. Albert never even made it past his nineteenth birthday as he died a year after signing up.
Additional Information
Parents: Richard & Elizabeth Mary Allen. The 1901 census records that the Allen family were living in Hatfield and that Albert had two brothers, William Joseph and Edward; and two sisters, Phoebe and Beatrice. By 1911 the Allen family had moved from Hatfield and were living in Colney Heath. The census for 1911 records that Albert was single, that Phoebe had moved out and there were now two further siblings, Isabel and Joy. William Joseph who was also a casualty of the Great War.
Acknowledgments
Graham Clark – World War One – The Fallen of London Colney, Grace Clark, Jonty Wild
Gareth Hughes
