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2 July 1916 : L Cpl William Allen

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Born in Accrington, Lancashire in 11 May 1884, William was the third of six children of Robert Horace (a cotton carder) and Mary Allen.  At the time of the 1901 England Census the now widowed Horace and family were living at 19 Canning St, Accrington. William had an older sister Emma (1881); an older brother Thomas (1882) a machine fitter age 1...