Private John Allen

Army Number: 11541

Battalion: 12th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in Nottingham. and lived at Carrington Nottingham. Son of Celia Green (formerly Allen), of 5, Lindsay Street, Hyson Green, Nottingham. Husband of Frances Allen . Enlisted at Nottingham and went to France on 4th November 1914 with the 1st Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He died on 5th November 1918.

Buried Etaples Military Cemetery, France. Plot 49, Row A. Grave 28

Private John Allen is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private Leonard Allen 17th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.