Stephen Charles Allen

Service number: 3002

Rank: Private

Unit: 13th Battalion (Infantry)

Service: Australian Army Conflict: 1914-1918

Date of death: 14 August 1916 Cemetery or memorial details: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France

War Grave Register notes:

ALLEN Pte Stephen Charles 3002 13th Bn. 14th Aug 1916. Age 25. Son of John Thomas and Hester Alice Allen of 7 Beach St, Curl Curl, Manly, New South Wales. Born at Balmain, New South Wales.

Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army

Stephen Allen was born at Balmain in 1892, and worked as a carter.

He enlisted on 18 July 1915 and embarked on the Ballarat on 6 September along with his brother Robert. He arrived in France on 6 June 1916 and served with the 13th Battalion.

He was killed in action in the same engagement at Tom’s Cut, Mouquet Farm, as Robert Allen. A Court of Inquiry found that he died on the same day, but his body was not found.

They are commemorated on a headstone in Manly Cemetery, plot B.618.