Bromley War Memorial

Parents: George & Sarah Ann Allen (nee Davis)
Parents' occupation: Baker & Confectioner (own business), Councillor
Siblings: Ethel Annie, Edith Maud, May, Frederick Robert, Percy Arthur

Census information

1901
Address: 39 Freelands Road
1911
Address: 39 Freelands Road
Occupation: Bakery Student

Extra details

George was the 3rd of George and Sarah Ann Allen's six children.

Taken from the Bromley & District Times:-
"From boyhood to manhood he did well in all he undertook. He attended Wharton Road School where he was the first to win the prize as the most popular boy in the school. His headmaster wrote " George was at this school from November 1901, to December 1908. He went through all the classes very successfully, finally attaining the second place in the school. He was trusted with many monitorial duties and did everything as perfectly as a boy could. He was keen on sport and succeeded in winning prizes at school sports. I well remember how keenly I felt the parting with him when he came of age to leave."
As a boy he was also in the choir of St John's Church, in which he rose to be leader. He played football and cricket well, and was a member of St John's Saturday and the Bromley Wednesday football and cricket clubs. On leaving school he worked in his father's baker's and confectioner's business for some time, and attended the Polytechnic for a season, where he did well, winning a prize for bread making and also a first class certificate in ordinary grade confectionery at the City and Guilds of London Institute. Subsequently his professional education was continued under an exhibition cup winner and medallist, where he was trained in the higher branches of the confectioner's art.
Then war broke out and he joined the East Surreys in November, 1914, going to the front the following August as a Lance Corporal. He was slightly wounded on July 1, 1916 when the first great push started, and after recovering was transferred to the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and given another stripe. He was again wounded, but not seriously. Having previously declined a commission he at length accepted one, and came home for the special course of training at Oxford. On obtaining his commission he was gazetted to the Royal West Kent Regiment, and went to the Front again on August 11, 1917, news of his death from wounds on October 12 reaching his parents on Sunday last (October14)."

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