Edwin ALLEN

ALLEN, Edwin

Service Number: 329
Enlisted: 26 February 1916, Hobart, Tasmania
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 40th Infantry Battalion
Born: Seymour, Tasmania, Australia, 12 September 1889
Home Town: Taranna, Tasman, Tasmania
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, Belgium, 28 July 1917, aged 27 years
Cemetery: Kandahar Farm Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Plot 11, Row F, Grave 14
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 1 Service

26 Feb 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Hobart, Tasmania
1 Jul 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 329, 40th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1,

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1 Jul 1916: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 329, 40th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Hobart
28 Jul 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 329, 40th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

329 Private Edwin Allen was the oldest of four brothers from the Tasman Peninsular, enlisting in February 1916, into the almost all Tasmanian 40th Battalion AIF. He left Tasmania on the same ship as at the same time as his brother Paul. Edwin joined the 40th Battalion in France March 1917, and survived for 4 months before he was killed in action in Belgium on the 28th July 1917. He is buried in Kandahar Farm Cemetery (Plot II, Row F, Grave No. 14), Neuve Eglise, Belgium.

His brothers, 

ALLEN, Pte. Leslie, 4436. 52nd Bn. Australian Inf. Killed in action 3rd/4th Sept., 1916. Age 23. Son of Egbert and Lucy Allen, of Taranna, Tasmania. Serre Road Cemetery No 1 (Plot VII, Row H, Grave 12), Beaumont-Hamel, France. 

ALLEN, Pte Paul, 108 51st Bn Australian Inf Died of wounds 3rd April 1917 Age 19. Son of Egbert and Lucy Allen of Taranna Tasmania Pozieres British Cemetery Ovillers-La-Boisselle II D 38.

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

His brother, 3619 Pte. ALLEN, James, 26th Bn. AIF returned to Australia 15 April 1918.

Biography

Medals - British War Medal, Victory Medal

Son of Egbert and Lucy Allen, of Taranna, Tasmania