Service Details
Name:
 ALLEN
Given Name:
 JOHN HENRY
Initials:
 J H
Service No:
 5871
Rank:
 Trooper
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Regiment:
 South African Horse
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Unit:
 9th
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Date of Death:
 1916-08-20
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Age:
 30
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Additional
Information:
Son of I. W. Allen; husband of Minnie Allen, of Stamford Terrace, Umtata, Transkei, South Africa. Extract of They fought for King and Kaiser by James Ambrose Brown (copy of extract enclosed) reads: "A youngster of the 9th was killed. I helped to bury the boy in his lonely grave under a tree in the foothills of the Ulugurus. Reitz noted with some emotion that the boy's name was Allen."
Commemoration
Country:
 Tanzania
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Cemetery:
 DAR ES SALAAM WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 7. F. 3.

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