Private Leonard Allen

Army Number: 29950 (formerly 6101)

Battalion: 17th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in Nottingham. Son of Celia A. Green (formerly Allen), of 5, Lindsay St., Hyson Green, Nottingham. He was a threader prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He died of wounds on 13th September 1916

Buried Etaples Military Cemetery, France. Plot 10, Row D, Grave 5.

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

His brother Private John Allen 12th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.