Name
Maurice Reginald Allen
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/09/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
2nd
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Harpenden Town Memorial, Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Harpenden
Pre War
Maurice Reginald was born on 12 Nov 1894 in Duffield, Derbyshire. He was the oldest son of John Allen, Railway Auditor & Accountant, and Mary Elizabeth (nee Wood). The family were living at Castle Hill, Duffield.
By 1911 the family were living at the Nook, Arden Grove, Harpenden and Maurice was training as a Chartered Accountant.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in the 28th (Artists’ Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment as Private 2887 going to France on 14 Feb 1915.
He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant on 23 Oct 1915 in the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derby) Regiment.
He was killed in action in France on 13 September 1916 aged 23 years just before the opening (15th Sep 1916) of the battle of Flers-Courcelette on the Somme.
His remains were not recovered and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £5 and arrears of £46 1s 2d paid to his father.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk)
