Allen, George
PLACE BIRTH
Port Douglas
OCCUPATION
Carpenter
PLACE ENLISTMENT
Herberton QLD
DATE ENLISTMENT
16/02/1915
NEXT OF KIN
John Allen (brother) Ravenshoe QLD
LINK TO DOUGLAS SHIRE
Born Port Douglas
REGIMENT 1
5th Light Horse
RANK
Private
CAMPAIGN 1
Gallipoli
CAMPAIGN 2
Western Front
DATE DISCHARGED
4/10/1919
OTHER INFO
Railway construction.
Awarded the 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal
STORY OUTLINE
George Allen was born in Port Douglas, became a carpenter, perhaps living at Ravenshoe and enlisted at Herberton in February 1915. Assigned to the 5th Light Horse, he embarked for Gallipoli on the Shropshire and entered the Gallipoli campaign in November 1915. Part of the withdrawal from Gallipoli on 25 December 1915, he disembarked at Alexandria and was then based at Serapeum ex Maadi. In July 1917, he was transferred to a Railway Construction unit. He was later hospitalised in November 1918, then in rest camp until departure for Australia on the HT Madras. We know little of his movements after discharge in October 1919 other than a letter from him in 1967 requesting his Gallipoli Medallion, mailed from Mt Perseverance Julatten. It appears that he returned to live in the Douglas locality.
SERVICE NO
1098
