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Citation(s);
Military service
Age:
22
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Flying Corps
Division:
9th Sqdn.
Birth:
July 23, 1894
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
April 30, 1917
France
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Arthur E. and Phoebe Alice Allen, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; husband of Bessie Mildred Gardner (formerly Allen, nee Potter).
Additional citations
Military Cross
Digital gallery of Captain Arthur Spencer Allen
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Newspaper Clipping
Born 1895 in Glenwood, Nova Scotia. Employed as a teller in the Barrington Street branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia in Halifax, N.S. Enlisted in 1915, fought in France in 1916 and was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous bravery. Shot down while on patrol as a Captain in the 9th Squadron Royal Flying Corps and presumed dead in April 1917. -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Yarmouth Herald for 5 June 1917. -
Arras Flying Services Memorial
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Inscription
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Newspaper clipping
From the Halifax Evening Mail February 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Arthur Spencer Allen
Digital gallery of
Captain Arthur Spencer Allen
Digital gallery of
Captain Arthur Spencer Allen
Digital gallery of
Captain Arthur Spencer Allen
Digital gallery of
Captain Arthur Spencer Allen
ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
The Arras Flying Services Memorial is in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras, near the Citadel, approximately 2 kilometres due west of the railway station.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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