David Harry Allan

This name is on Holy Trinity WW1 Memorial, London SW4

David Harry Allan

Died on 23 September 1918, aged 18

Private, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 1st Battalion

Service no 68977

Remembered at Thilloy Road Cemetery, Beaulencourt, Pas de Calais, France

Information from the 1911 census

David Harry Allan, an 11-year-old schoolboy in 1911, lived at 77 Rectory Grove, Clapham with his father, David Allan, 42, a travelling tapissier for the Lord Chamberlain's Department (he looked after tapestry and furnishings), born in Wandsworth, and mother, Edith Allan, 36, born in Westminster, and his younger sister, Esther D. Allan, 4. The children were both born in Battersea. The family shared 7 rooms.