Regimental number | 2520 |
Place of birth | Mill Flats, New South Wales |
School | Glen Williams Public School, New South Wales |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Farmer |
Address | Glen William, Clarence Town, New South Wales |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 21 |
Height | 5' 11.5" |
Weight | 170 lbs |
Next of kin | Father, John Allen, Glen William, Clarence Town, New South Wales |
Previous military service | Served for 2 years in the 6th Light Horse |
Enlistment date | |
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
Place of enlistment | Newcastle |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 35th Battalion, 5th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/52/2 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A11 Ascanius on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 35th Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Zonnebeke, Belgium |
Age at death | 22 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 124 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: John and Mary ALLEN |
Other details |
War service: Western Front Embarked Sydney, 25 October 1916; disembarked Devonport, England, 28 December 1916. Marched in, 9th Training Bn, Durrington, 29 December 1916. Embarked Folkestone to join the British Expeditionary Force, France, 15 March 1917; marched in, 3rd Australian Divisional Base Depot, Etaples, 16 March 1917. Taken on strength, 35th Bn, in the field, 4 April 1917. Appointed lance corporal, in the field, 11 September 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 3 October 1917. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |
Miscellaneous details | Attestation papers list birthplace as Clarence Town, New South Wales |
Sources | NAA: B2455, ALLEN Cecil Claude |