Name
Horace Moss Allen
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/02/1917
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
23166
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2 C
France
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Markyate Village Memorial, St John The Baptist Church Memorial (Ext), Markyate, St John The Baptist Church ROH, Markyate, Markyate Baptist Church Memorial
Pre War
Horace Moss Allen was born in Aley Green, Caddington, Luton to Frederick Allen, straw hat blocker, and Emily (nee Moss).
On the 1891 Census the family of Parents, Lizzie (born 1884), Horace, and flora (born 1890 were living at Aley Green, Caddington.
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Lizzie, Horace, Flornc (Florence?), Born 1891), Charles (born 1892), Nellie (born 1895), Annie (born 1898), Eva & Ivy (born 1900) were living at Hicks Lane, Markyate.
On the 1911 Census the family of parents, Horace, Charles, Nellie, Annie, Eva and Ivy were living at 21 Hicks Lane, Markyate
Wartime Service
No Service Record was found for Horace.
He was enlisted as Private 23166 in the Bedfordshire Regiment. He was posted to 4th (Reserve) Battalion which had been converted for War Service and landed in France at Le Havre on 25 July 1916. The Battalion was placed in 190 Brigade of the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division and took part in the Battle of Ancre (13-16 Nov 1916) on the Somme Battlefield. They remained in this area to take part in the Operations on the Ancre (20 Jan- 3 Mar 1917) which consisted of small scale attacks to gain tactical advantages.
Horace was reported Killed in action on 14 Feb 1917. This may have been the result of the normal trench attrition of soldiers through Artillery action, trench raids, etc. His remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £4 10s and arrears of £5 12s 3d was paid to his mother.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Anne & Gordon Mead
