Albert Edward ALLEN

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ALLEN, Albert Edward

Service Number:	847
Enlisted:	21 August 1914, Bendigo, Victoria
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd Machine Gun Company
Born:	Woodvale, Victoria, Australia, 28 February 1892
Home Town:	Eaglehawk, Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Schooling:	Nerring State School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Locomotive Fireman, (Vic Rail)
Died:	Died of wounds, France, 10 May 1917, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension Achist-Le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension Plot 1, Row F, Grave 20, Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension, Achiet-le-Grand, Arras, Nord Pas de Calais, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor, Bendigo Loco Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

21 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Bendigo, Victoria
19 Oct 1914:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 847, 7th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
19 Oct 1914:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 847, 7th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne
26 May 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 847, 7th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli
13 Jul 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 847, 7th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Shell shock and bruised back
23 Jun 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 2nd Machine Gun Company
23 Jul 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 847, 2nd Machine Gun Company, Battle for Pozières
26 Aug 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 847, 2nd Machine Gun Company, Mouquet Farm
11 Apr 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2nd Machine Gun Company
10 May 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 847, 2nd Machine Gun Company, Bullecourt (Second), Died of GSW to forehead, arm & left wrist.
10 May 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 847, 2nd Machine Gun Company, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 847 awm_unit: 2 Machine Gun Company awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-05-10

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Biography contributed by Robert Wight

Wounded 10 May 1917 at Bullecourt. Evacuated to 49th CCS (located at Achiet-le-Grand), where he died later the same day.

Biography

Served in the Eaglehawk Rifle Club. Son of Thomas and Annie Allen

Cemetery details: Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension, Achiet-le-Grand, Arras, Nord Pas de Calais, France (Plot 1, Row F, Grave 20)

"Our Soldiers. LETTER FROM LANCE-CORPORAL ALLEN. France, April 1917.

Dear mother and dad,- Well I am dropping you a few lines to let you know that I am doing well at present (#67887729). I suppose you know that I am wounded by this time. Well, we made a charge on the 10th April in the morning, we came in from a spell and were only two days in lines when we hopped over just before daylight and we had to break Hindenburg's line, so I was in the first wave. I got into the trench and I noticed a machine gun of Fritz's firing on the second line which was coming up, so I got rid of a bomb, but I missed him, so I got up to get my section in, as I noticed him fire point blank at me and I got it in the thigh and leg. He was only 15 yards off me. I got for my life. I could not walk, but I crawled back 700 yards. I was dead beat when I got to the dressing station, so I am marked to go to hospital in England. From Lance Corporal Albert Allen." - from the Donald Times 29 Jun 1917 (nla.gov.au)

"FOR FREEDOM'S CAUSE.
ALLEN. — Died of wounds at first clearing station in France, 10th May, 1917. Lance-Corporal Albert Edward Allen, G. Coy., 7th Battalion. Dearly-loved friend of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Wearne and family, 61 Garsed-street, Bendigo. Aged 27 years.
Not dead to those who loved him.
Not lost, but gone before:
He lives with us in memory still,
And will for evermore.
One of Australia's best (#16070566)." - from the Bendigo Advertiser 29 Jun 1917 (nla.gov.au)

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