TACON, Allan Frederick
| Service Number: | 7591 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 April 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Branxton, New South Wales, Australia, 1899 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Driver |
| Memorials: | Kurri Kurri Methodist Church Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Apr 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1 | |
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| 10 May 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 7591, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Marathon embarkation_ship_number: A74 public_note: '' | |
| 10 May 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 7591, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Marathon, Sydney | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement 1st Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières |
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Allan was the second child born to Robert Thomas Tacon and Margaret Rae in early 1899 at Branxton in NSW. The war was heading into its third year when Allan joined the AIF on 30 April 1917. At eighteen years of age he gave up his job as driver and enlisted at West Maitland into the 1st.Battalion 25th.Reinforcement AIF and became Private Tacon 7591. At the time he resided at Barton Street, Kurri Kurri where he lived with his father Robert F Tacon , a widower.
He embarked the HMAT Marathon A74 at Sydney on 10 May 1917 bound for England. Soon after arrival on the 20th. July at Plymouth he was marched into 1st. Training Battalion at Durrington for basic training. Following six months instruction he was ready for the battlefield and was sent to France on 2 December 1917 aboard the Southampton.
On 25th. April 1918 while in conflict with the enemy he received a gunshot wound to the abdomen and both thighs . The following day he was sent to England aboard the Jan Breydel and admitted to the war hospital at Croydon in the UK where he was placed on the dangerously ill list. His condition improved over the next few months and he was transferred to the 3rd. Auxillary hospital at Dartford on 12th. July to convalesce. In early August he received his discharge from the hospital and returned to Australia aboard the Runic on the 23rd. September that same year . For his part in the war effort he was received the British War medal , the Victory medal and the 1914/15 Star.
In 1927 he married Alma Callaghan in West Maitland and settled down together to raise a family together.
On 3 January 1985 he passed away at Kurri Kurri.