William ALLEN (ALLAN)

ALLEN (ALLAN), William

Service Number: Officer
Enlisted: 26 January 1900
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 2nd South Australian Mounted Rifles
Born: Cheadle, Staffordshire, England, 1870
Home Town: Not yet discovered
Schooling: England
Occupation: Politician
Died: 11 September 1945, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
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Boer War Service

26 Jan 1900: Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant, Officer, 2nd South Australian Mounted Rifles
26 Jan 1900: Enlisted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant

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Biography

William served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1892 to 1900, and — after a gap of more than thirty years — from 1931 to 1935.[3] Allen was the son of William Shepherd Allen, also an MP. He first entered the House of Commons at the 1892. Aged only 22, he was elected as the Liberal Party MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, defeating the incumbent Liberal Unionist MP, Douglas Coghill.[1][4] He was re-elected at the 1895 election, but was defeated at the 1900 general election.[4] This was on account of his active service in the Second Boer War. - extract from Wikipedia site

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