ALLEN Alfred Parkinson

Known information

Sapper Alfred Parkinson Allen is listed in Rutland and the Great War with the surname Fowler, the name his mother took when she remarried and was living in Shacklewell Cottages, Empingham, hence the photograph caption above. But the Commonwealth War Graves Commission lists him as Allen. He was born at Thorpe Satchville on 29 November 1895. A wheelwright by trade, he enlisted in The Royal Engineers in 1916. After training at Chatham he went out to France with 87th Field Company on 2 October that year. He took part in fighting on the Somme and at Arras and elsewhere and was killed by a shell on 8 May 1917 at Monchy, while lying in a trench waiting to go up to the front line. He was buried at Feuchy, and a wooden cross was erected by his fellow sappers, now Feuchy British Cemetery, grave II.B.11. Before joining up he was well-known in connection with the Wesleyan Church. The Major of his company wrote: "He was an excellent soldier and I had particularly noticed his intelligence and keeness. Such men are more than ever wanted. He was doing his duty nobly." Alfred is remembered on Empingham's war memorial.

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  • Empingham Church
  • Empingham plaque
  • Empingham Cemetery
  • Empingham Memorial 2
  • Empingham Cemetery War Memorial
  • Feuchy British Cemetery
  • A P Allen 3
  • A P Allen 4
  • A P Allen 1
  • A P Allen 2

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3 images Some pictures of Mr Allen’s headstone, taken 12 April 2015.
By John Stokes on Wednesday 15th April '15 at 6:00pm
A Rutlander, living in Belgium
 

Rutland and The Battle of the Somme

More than 90 Rutland soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme which lasted from 1 July 1916 until the middle of November. Today they lie in cemeteries across the old battlefield in northern France or are remembered among the 72,000 names on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. By using our interactive map, you can find out what happened to them.

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