Service Details
Name:
 ALLEN
Given Name:
 CHARLES HERBERT
Initials:
 C H
Service No:
 205663
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 72 Operational Training Unit RAF
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Unit 2:
 attd. 207 Group East African Forces
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Date of Death:
 1942-07-23
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Date of Birth:
 1915-04-21
Age:
 27
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Blenheim IV #7763, undergoing flying training in Kenya when their aircraft, a Blenheim bomber, did not return from a cross country navigational flying exercise. The wreck of the aircraft, and their mortal remains, were only discovered in 2002, and positively identified in 2003.
Additional
Information:
Son of Thomas Frederick and Lilian Maria Allen, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. On Jeppe High School for Boys Roll of Honour. His brother also died on service. Commemoration stone in Johannesburg (Brixton) Cemetery
Commemoration
Country:
 Kenya
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Cemetery:
 NANYUKI WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Special Memorial

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