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Service Number:	4267
Enlisted:	29 December 1914, Enlisted at Brisbane
Last Rank:	Driver
Last Unit:	1st Divisional Ammunition Column
Born:	Wantage, Berkshire, England, 1884
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Gardener and groom
Died:	Killed in Action, Ypres, Belgium, 12 August 1917
Cemetery:	Reninghelst New Military Cemetery, Belgium Plot 111, Row B, Grave 4, Reninghelst New Military Cemetery, Reninghelst, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

29 Dec 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 4267, 1st Divisional Ammunition Column, Enlisted at Brisbane
16 Apr 1915:	Involvement Driver, 4267, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade , Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: ''
16 Apr 1915:	Embarked Driver, 4267, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Kyarra, Brisbane
12 Aug 1917:	Involvement Driver, 4267, 1st Divisional Ammunition Column, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4267 awm_unit: 1st Australian Divisional Ammunition Column awm_rank: Driver awm_died_date: 1917-08-12

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He may have been born, not in 1884, but in 1881

Births Mar 1881 ALLEN John Wantage 2c 318.

He is honoured on the Wantage War Memorial along with fellow Australian soldier, Lance Corporal Arthur Sowerby Burn.

Son of Mrs Allen of Mill Street, Wantage, Berkshire, England

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal

Also served in the Royal Horse Artillery for 12 years

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