Private Benjamin Allen

Army Number: 241146 (formerly 3634)

Battalion: 2/6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born Brierley Hill, Staffordshire. Son of James and Sarah Allen, of 69 Elmoor Green Road, Bloxwich, Staffordshire. husband of Rose Catherine Allen, of 33, Heywood St. Brimington, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He was a coal miner at Markham No.1 Colliery, Derbyshire prior to enlisting on 21st January 1915 at Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He went to France on 26th February 1917 and was killed in action, on 27th April 1917, aged 38, during the attack on Quarries and Cologne Farm near Hargicourt, France. 

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D.

Private Benjamin Allen is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Michael and All Angels Church War Memorial, Brimington, Derbyshire.
Broom Gardens War Memorial Gates, Brmington, Derbyshire.