Identity
Title
Forenames
Stephen Shepherd AWMM
Surname
Allen AWMM
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Also known as
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- WWI 12/2600 AWMM
- WWII 989 AWMM
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- Wounds Diseases Etc., WWI AWMM
Wounded 4 times AWMM - Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Heart attack AWMM
Biographical information
Son of William Shepherd Allen and Elixabeth Penelope Candlish. Husband of Mary Isabel Hay Allen (nee Foster). Brothers Robert Candlish Allen (12/3538) and Stephen Shepherd Allen (12/2600) served in WW1.
Transferred from British Army to NZ Forces, 18 May 1915.
Promoted to Colonel, 1920. Honorary Aide-de-camp (ADC) to NZ Governor-General, 1925.
Mayor of Morrinsville, 1927-28. Administrator, Western Samoa, 1928-32.
Commander of 1 NZ Infantry Brigade, 1920-24, 1933-37. Served WW2 as Military Secretary, 2 NZEF, Headquarters, Egypt, 1940-41.
His only son, Peter Russell Hay Allen, served with the Royal Navy, HM Submarine Upholder and was killed 18 April 1942. He died of a heart attack while driving near Maramarua on 4 November 1964. AWMM
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Sources
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Documents
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
Vol1: 11 AWMM - 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. AWMM
WW2 3: WW2 10 AWMM - Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2015). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-3). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications AWMM
Vol. 3: Includes portrait AWMM
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