Arthur Frederick Allen

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Arthur Frederick AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Allen AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWII 38479 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Anglican, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

19 Nov 1909 AWMM

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of William Arthur Allen and of Ada Florence Allen (nee Scott), of Hastings

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 1 May 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/arthur-frederick-allen

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

WW2 Unknown AWMM 3 Townley Street, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

WW2 Mrs M.H. Allen (wife), Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

• Pre 01 Feb 1941 AWMM Married/WWII AWMM
• 1937 Arthur Frederick ALLEN married Mary Harthill DUNCAN
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 1 May 2023 - NZ BDM Marriage Records

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• Sinai & Palestine AWMM
• Italy AWMM
• North Africa AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWII 38479 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

Cadets - 5 years (Sergeant) AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

• Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) AWMM
• 1939-1945 Star AWMM
• Africa Star (8th Army clasp) AWMM
• Italy Star AWMM
• Defence Medal AWMM
• War Medal 1939-1945 with oak leaf AWMM
• New Zealand War Service Medal AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Civil Engineer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Lieutenant/Military AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Captain/Military AWMM
New Zealand Engineers, 6 Field Company AWMM

Arthur Allen was the son of William Arthur Allen and Ada Florence Allen (nee Scott) of Hastings, Hawke's Bay. Both parents were from England. When he enlisted his father was deceased and his mother's surname was Newman. He was the husband of Mary Harthill Allen of Gisborne.

An interesting collection of letters written in transit from New Zealand and from Africa and Italy is held in the Auckland War Memorial Museum Library Manuscript Collection. (reference MS99/31) AWMM

Matenga

18 Feb 1944 AWMM
Age  34 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Urupā

Cassino War Cemetery, Italy AWMM VI. B. 10. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

• The New Zealand Herald dated 29 February 1944 reported that Captain Allen had been killed in action. AWMM
• Allen. —In ever loving memory of our dear husband and father, Capt. Arthur F. Allen, who was killed in action at Cassino February 18, 1944. Dearly loved and deeply mourned. —lnserted by his wife and little daughter Lesley.
  Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 20 June 2023 - ROLL OF HONOUR IN MEMORIAM
  GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXXII, ISSUE 21641, 17 FEBRUARY 1945, PAGE 1

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Gisborne First World War Memorial, The Esplanade, Kaiti, Gisborne AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2607967
Sources Used

Ngā tuhinga

• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• The Weekly News
  Weekly News, 1944
• Cody, J.F. (1961). New Zealand Engineers, Middle East. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
  pp. 66, 185, 414.
• Allen, Arthur Frederick. letters 1941-1944. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 99/31.
• The New Zealand Herald
  An article about the war commemorations in Cassino featured in the (2004, May 28). New Zealand Herald.
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  p.10
• Information kindly provided by family