Robert ALLEN

Roll of Honour of the 710 men of Hyde who fell in WW1

Robert ALLEN

Private 27318 Robert ALLEN of 17th Bn. Manchester Regiment (Formerly 25th Manchester Regiment)

Killed in Action Tuesday 7th May 1918, France , age 26

Of: 24 Wilson Street, Gorse Hill, Stretford, Lancashire

Born: 1892, Manchester, Lancashire

Parents: Sarah Jane Allen and Adam Allen of 137, George Street, Hyde, Cheshire

Marital status: Single

Occupation: Ford Motor Works, Manchester

He enlisted in: Manchester, Lancashire

Remembered on: Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 120 to 124 and 162 to 162A and 163A

Link with Hyde: Mother Born in Hyde

Notes:

Awarded DCM for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when acting as a stretcher bearer. He managed to bring a wounded man back successfully from a front position under full fire from advancing enemy, and during the following week repeatedly brought in wounded men under heavy machine-gun fire. He was eventually wounded while attending to a case (3.9.18).

Private Allen died within three hours of being informed he was being awarded the DCM.

Of:	24 Wilson Street, Gorse Hill, Stretford, Lancashire
Born:	1892, Manchester, Lancashire
Parents:	Sarah Jane Allen and Adam Allen of 137, George Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital status:	Single
Occupation:	Ford Motor Works, Manchester
He enlisted in:	Manchester, Lancashire
Remembered on:	Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 120 to 124 and 162 to 162A and 163A
Link with Hyde:	Mother Born in Hyde