Private 27318 Robert ALLEN
17th Battalion, Manchester Regimentformerly 25th Manchester Regiment
Killed in Action, Tuesday 7th May 1918, Belgium, Age 26
Home address:
24 Wilson Street, Gorse Hill, Stretford, Lancashire
Born:
1892, Manchester, Lancashire
Parents:
Sarah Jane Allen and Adam Allen
137, George Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Single
Occupation:
Ford Motor Works, Manchester
Enlisted:
Manchester, Lancashire
Remembered:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, panel 121a.
Link to Hyde:
Mother Born in Hyde
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.