Stanley Fairgrieve Allen

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Stanley Fairgrieve AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Allen AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Soldier Sam Allen AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWII 4005 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

17 May 1897 AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

WW2 Unknown AWMM Army Office, Hamilton, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

WW2 Mrs Florence MacDonald Allen (wife), 11 Shirley Street, Karori, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 05 Jan 1940 AWMM Married AWMM
Married, 3 children AWMM

Pakanga

• Regular Military Service AWMM
• World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• 1919-1920 AWMM Waziristan 1919–1920 AWMM
• Sinai & Palestine AWMM
• Western Desert AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWII 4005 AWMM

Urunga ki te ope taua

• Attached 2nd Norfolk Regiment AWMM
• New Zealand Staff Corps AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

• Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) AWMM
  OBE. For service in Greece, London Gazette 30th December 1941, "Was in charge of the Signal Services of NZ Division throughout the campaign in Greece; and his indomitable courage and determined resource resulted in communciations being maintained and lines kept open despite the heavy strain of withdrawal." Beattie and Pomeroy, p. 12 AWMM
• Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) AWMM
• War Medal 1939-1945 AWMM
• New Zealand War Service Medal AWMM
• India General Service 1909 (Waziristan 1919-21 clasp) AWMM

Whakangungu ope taua

Duntroon AWMM

Te urunga

Unknown AWMM Army Officer/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Major/Military AWMM
2nd Embarkation AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Brigadier/Military AWMM
21 (Auckland) Infantry Battalion AWMM

Matenga

15 Jul 1942 AWMM
Age  45 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Tuhipoka mō te matenga

Notes from J Marshall, Capt.
1. At noon on 15 July 1942 I saw Col. Allen at a wounded collecting pos

Public - Paul Allen - Other Relative - 22 February 2015 - Two sheets of typed up letters, it isnt clear that they were from J Marshall Capt. but in them, prior to this entry there is the introduction 'One of the most moving items in these letters was a pencil note on a couple of scraps of paper from a notebook, which read as follows:'
The two sheets areretained amongst my mother's private posessions, she is Audrey Burleigh, Col Allen's youngest daughter.
In one of the following letters of July 17 '42 there is also the entry 'I am very upset over dear old Sam Allen's death and have just written a hurried line to Cherry (Allen's wife) He was shot through the lung during an attack early on the morning of 15 July and died in the afternoon. We are paying a heavy price in fine fellows.'

Urupā

El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt AWMM XXX. H. 1 AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM
• King's College Memorial Chapel at King's College, Otahuhu, Auckland, World War 1 Roll of Honour.
  Public - King's College Archive - Researcher - 15 May 2026 - King's College Memorial Chapel

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Cody, J. (1953). 21 Battalion. Wellington, Dept. of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-21Ba.html
  Sources Used
• Obituary: Evening Post, 31 July 1942
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19420731.2.47.4&srpos
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/name-010332.html
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2091971
  Sources Used
• Wikidata Entity
  http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q12803436
  Further Reference
• https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/stanley-fairgrieve-allen
  Public - Alison - Direct descendant - 19 September 2023 - New Zealand War Graves

Ngā tuhinga

• Cody, J. F., & New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs War History Branch. (1953). 21 Battalion. Wellington, N.Z. : War History Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs.
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 1 (Embarkations to 31st March, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 1: WW2 7
• The Evening Post
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• Borman, C. (1954). Divisional Signals. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Beattie, P.J. and Pomeroy, M.J. (2016). Gallant Acts and Noble Deeds: New Zealand army honours and awards for the Second World War. Auckland, N.Z.: Fair Dinkum Publications.; P.J. Beattie and M.J. Pomeroy, 2016.
  p. 12
• McClymont, W. (1959). To Greece. Wellington, N.Z.: Department Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Research relating to New Zealand personnel in the Waziristan campaign kindly provided by Wing Commander Mark Brewer, RNZAF (2026).