In Memory Of

ALLEN, JOHN HENRY

Service Details
Age:
 30
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 5871
Rank:
 Trooper
Unit:
 9th
Regiment:
 South African Horse
Date of Death:
 1916-08-20
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 7. F. 3.
Cemetery:
 DAR ES SALAAM WAR CEMETERY
Country:
 Tanzania
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."