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Pte. John Thomas Allen
British Army Sherwood Foresters
from:Long Eaton, Derbyshire
I have not been able to find anything of the war history of my father John Allen, known as Jack. Unable to find his regiment no. or whereabouts he served in trenches in France, or when he received shrapnel wound in his arm. He signed up at Normanton Barracks and seemingly in the Sherwood Foresters (with Harold Allen who was not a relation). His medals may have been sold possibly in early post war years along with my Uncle, James Percival Turner's MM and Bar, maybe at the same time, to a private collector or could be in a museum. I would be pleased if anyone could give any information, most of all John Thomas Allen's regiment no. My father was born in 1899 and lived in Long Eaton, Derbyshire and later owned a garage there.
