Casualty Details

Name: ALLEN, JOHN MANCHESTER
Initials: J M
Nationality: New Zealand
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Regiment/Service: New Zealand Infantry
Unit Text: Cdg. 21st Bn.
Age: 40
Date of Death: 28/11/1941
Service No: 2562
Awards: Mentioned in Despatches
Additional information: Son of John Candlish Allen, and of Alice Matilda Allen (nee Manchester); husband of Ethne May Birch Allen, of Piako, Auckland, New Zealand.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 6. A. 25.
Cemetery: KNIGHTSBRIDGE WAR CEMETERY, ACROMA