Lionel ALLEN

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Service Number:	NX5676
Enlisted:	30 April 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/19th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Pennant Hills, New South Wales, Australia, 10 January 1904
Home Town:	Epping, Parramatta, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Builders Labourer
Died:	Presumed, Malaya, 22 January 1942, aged 38 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Singapore Memorial, Singapore. Column 122.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Singapore Memorial Kranji War Cemetery

30 Apr 1941:	Enlisted Private, NX5676, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion
30 Apr 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX5676, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion
29 Jul 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX5676, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion, Embarked at Sydney bound for Singapore. Disembarked on 16 Aug 1941.
7 Dec 1941:	Involvement Private, NX5676, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore
18 Jan 1942:	Wounded Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX5676, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion, Malaya/Singapore, MIA presumed wounded.
22 Jan 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX5676, 2nd/19th Infantry Battalion, MIA presumed dead.

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