Name
Albert Ernest Allen
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/10/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
CH/959(S)
Royal Marine Light Infantry
1st R.M. Bn. R N. Div.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 1 and 162A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials (*1)
Pre War
Son of Emma (nee COLLINS) ALLEN of Watford, and the late Charles ALLEN.
His parents married 27 November 1869 at St Mary’s, Watford. Charles died 1914 in Watford aged 67, and was buried 4 August in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Emma died 1934 in the St Alban’s, Herts, district aged 74.
Albert was born 17 December 1889 in Wood Green, Middx.
On the 1891 Census, aged 1 he lived in Wood Green, with his parents and five siblings. On the 1901 Census, aged 10 he lived in Watford, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, employed at a watch factory aged 21, he still lived in Watford, with his parents and no siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in London 17 August 1915: an engineer aged 25, 5’6″ tall, C of E, his next-of-kin his mother of Watford. He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was assumed killed or died as a direct result of enemy action.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH online via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
