ALLEN, Keith
Service Number: | 401359 |
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Enlisted: | 2 February 1941 |
Last Rank: | Sergeant |
Last Unit: | No. 49 Squadron (RAF) |
Born: | Prahran, Victoria, Australia, 30 January 1911 |
Home Town: | Brighton, Bayside, Victoria |
Schooling: | Wesley College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Occupation: | Audit clerk |
Died: | Flying Battle, North Sea, North Sea, Atlantic Ocean, 20 June 1942, aged 31 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England, United Kingdom |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Runnymede Air Forces Memorial |
World War 2 Service
2 Feb 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 401359, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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2 Feb 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 401359 | |
3 Feb 1941: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 401359, Empire Air Training Scheme | |
20 Jun 1942: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 401359, No. 49 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
Manchester L7387 of 49SQN RAF crashed in the North Sea, off the coast of Holland / Sweden with all on board killed:
PRICE, Harrington Warren (Sergeant) 402539 RAAF (buried in Vredenhof Cemetery on Schiermonnikoog Island, Friesland, Netherlands)
McKENNA, Terence Francis Breen (Sergeant) 405162 RAAF (buried in Kviberg Cemetery, Goteborg, Västergötland, Sweden)
O’BRIEN, John Ormond (Sergeant) 403876 RAAF (body not recovered - he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial)
ALLEN, Keith (Sergeant) 401359 RAAF (body not recovered - he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial)
GOLDRING, Charles Edward (Sergeant) 657308 RAF (body not recovered - he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial)
ROGERS, Neville John (Sergeant) 778781 RAF (body not recovered - he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial)
GAROS, Alexander (Sergeant) 778783 RAF (body not recovered - he is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial)
Biography
49 Squadron
Rank - Sergeant - Air Observer
Sports played, Rugby Union, Tennis, Swimming
Son of James Gordon Allen and Mabel Allen, of Elwood, Victoria, Australia. Brother of Mrs C.J.W Farform