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Captain JOHN DERWENT ALLEN

Service Number: 138125
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Date of Death

Died 25 January 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY

10. K. 19.

Myanmar

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. Nigeria Regiment, R.W.A.F.F.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Vice-Admiral John Derwent Allen, C.B., and of Ruth Allen (nee Atkinson Willes), of St. Albans, Hertfordshire. B.A. Hons. (Oxon.).

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Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 6445
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