Sidney Alsop Allen

Pont-Du-Hem Military Cemetery, La GorgueSidney Alsop Allen

Sidney (Alsop) Allen

Private No. 15011 9th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment

Killed in action: France 19 February 1916. Age 20.

Buried in Pont-du-Hem Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, Nord, France. I.C.5.

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Born in Malpas, Cheshire in 1896.

Second /Third son of Joseph W Allen and the late Sarah Ann Allen of Cross O’ Th’ Hill, Malpas, Cheshire.

The 1911 Census shows Sidney as a farm worker.

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He enlisted in 1914 and was serving by December. He departed for the front on 19th July 1915. He was killed whilst acting as stretcher bearer bringing in wounded comrades.

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Whitchurch Herald 11th March 1916:

"Malpas readers will regret to hear of the death in action of Sydney Allen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Allen of Cross-a-Hill, Malpas, which occurred on February 19th.

The information was conveyed first in a letter from Lieut. Holmes, of the 9th Cheshires.

The gallant lad was engaged in the removal of a wounded comrade under shell fire, when he was killed instantaneously.

The Corporal of his platoon wrote expressing the deep regret of his comrades and sympathy with his mother.

He was one of the first Malpas boys to volunteer at the outbreak of war.

Some time ago we published extracts from a cheery letter which he had sent home, and it with deep regret that we now announce that the great sacrifice has been required of him"