In memory of

Lance Corporal

Arthur Percy Allen

who died on 10 Jan 1944

Service details
  Conflict WWII
  Service Army
  Unit Royal Canadian Engineers
  Rank Lance Corporal
  Service number L101638
  Date of death 19440110
  Cause of death accidental death
Narrative history
  L101638 Lance Corporal (Royal Canadian Engineers) Arthur Percy Allen (b.1908) of Regina died 19440110 and is buried at Tisdale cemetery. Allen was riding a bicycle at the engineers school at Chilliwack, British Columbia, when he collided with another soldier, suffering a skull fracture which took his life a week after the accident. Arthur was the son of Walter C. and Emily Allen of Hamilton, Ontario, and worked as an engineer/surveyor with the Highways department before the war. He was born at Hamiota, Manitoba, enlisted at Regina in 1942 and left a wife Ina May later of Tisdale.
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Memorial information
  Saskatchewan rural municipality for commemoration 159 - Sherwood
  Cemetery or memorial location Tisdale cemetery    

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  Honour roll location(s) Tisdale
Regina
  Geo-memorial Allen Lake, Saskatchewan     
  Geo-memorial location 52.5333°N / 102.0333°W
  Geo-memorial NTS map reference 63D9
  Geo-memorial details West of Elbow Lake north of Norquay.
Personal information
  Date of birth 19080223
  Place of birth Hamiota, Manitoba    
  Date of enlistment 19420801
  Place of enlistment Regina    
  Residence on enlistment Regina    
  Occupation civil servant
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