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ALLEN, Denis
(Service number 90823)

Aliases
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Birth

Date	30/08/1887	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	61 Hobson Street, Auckland
Occupation	Chef
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married. Two children
Next of Kin	Mrs F. M. ALLEN (wife), 3 Barnard Sreet, Timaru
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

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Prisoner of War Information

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Post-war Occupations

Chef

Death

Date	4 August 1948	Age	61 years
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Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Karori Cemetery, Wellington
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Denis Allen was the son of Irish-born Michael and Norah Allen. He was educated at the Timaru Marist Brothers School and Timaru South School. Denis married Florence Mabel Cornelius on 24 October 1910 at Timaru. Their first daughter, Nora Eileen, was born in 1910 at Wellington, and the second, Helen, was born in 1915 at Wellington.

Sources

NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [21 July 2018]; School Admission record (South Canterbury Branch NZSG) [30 July 2018]; Karori Cemetery headstone image & burial record (Wellington City Council) [30 July 2018]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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