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Military service
Service number:
B/37458
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
January 27, 1921
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
April 9, 1940
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Plot 2 Row 3 Grave 37.
Additional information
Son of Myrtle Allen, of Port Credit, Ontario.
Additional citations
<P>1939-45 Star<P>Defence Medal<P>War Medal<P>Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp
Digital gallery of Private Kenneth William Allen
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Kenneth William Allen
Digital gallery of
Private Kenneth William Allen
Digital gallery of
Private Kenneth William Allen
Digital gallery of
Private Kenneth William Allen
Digital gallery of
Private Kenneth William Allen
Digital gallery of
Private Kenneth William Allen
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 54 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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DUNKIRK TOWN CEMETERY Nord, France
DUNKIRK TOWN CEMETERY is at the south-eastern corner of the town of Dunkirk, immediately south of the canal and on the road to Veurne (Furnes) in Belgium. The British War Graves Plot is divided from the main cemetery by a hedge, and is entered through the columns of the Dunkirk Memorial.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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