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Francis John Allen

Reference Title:

Francis John Allen

Reference Date: 1943 
Categories: People, Military, WW2
Source:Local village research
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Entered By:Liz Guppy on 17-Jun-2025
Reference Information:

Francis John Allen

* Photo

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yes, in archive

* Where lived

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born in Bideford in 1923

* Worlington family

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1939. John was the gamekeeper

parents, John and Fanny Allen. Living at Affeton Castle in

* Military record (see below)

* Death

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6th

February 1943

* Buried

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none (see info below)

https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/200299/

Information on Ancestry military records:

Name Francis John Allen

Rank Sergeant

Death Age 19

Birth Year abt 1924

Death Date 6 Feb 1943

Military Base Topcliffe, Yorks

Service Number 1315775

Unit 424 Squadron

Command Bomber Cmnd

Ship Wellington Iii

Occupation Air Bomber

Casualty Killed in action

Residence Place Worlington, Devon

Burial Place Runnymede Memorial, Surrey

Notes Presumed Lost Over the North Sea During

A Mine Laying Sortie

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