Name
Charles Henry Allen
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Very little is known about Charles Allen’s record during the Great War. The Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour showed that he served with the Hertfordshire Yeomanry from November 1914 and he was recorded with that unit for the duration of the War. No other records have been found to confirm this. The Hertfordshire Yeomanry served at Gallipoli, in Egypt and Mesopotamia and also on the Western Front, but it is not known if Charles was involved in these campaigns.
Charles was born in the winter of 1883. He was one of eight children born to Edward and Eliza Allen – five sons and three daughters. In 1881 the family lived in Adrian Road, Abbots Langley. Edward, a retired Metropolitan Policeman, was employed as an Asylum Attendant. By the time of the 1901 Census the family had moved to Abbots Road. Charles was 18, and was employed as a Teacher at a National School. In 1911 he was still living at Abbots Road, but working at as a School Master at the St Pancras School at Leavesden.
Charles was recorded in the Hertfordshire Absent Voter Lists in Autumn 1918, serving, with a home residence of Abbots Road, Abbots Langley. As these Lists were compiled from February 1918 onwards, indicated that towards the end of the War Charles was still an Abbots Langley resident, however it did not confirm when he was de-mobilised or which Unit he was serving with.
Charles Allen survived the Great War.
Additional Information
Rank unknown
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
