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250th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
29th Nov 1915 First Loss for 250th Tunnelling Coy
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
9th February 1916 Call Ups
2nd Mar 1916 Instruction
3rd Mar 1916 Instruction
8th Mar 1916 Instruction Ends
1st of June 1917 Instructions for the Offensive
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250th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers
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- Allen William. L/Cpl.
- Hopson William.
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262765L/Cpl. William Allen 19th Battalion
William Allen was born in Leeds in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 10th of December 1891. He emigrated with his family to Ontario Canada in 1911, from Horsforth W. Yorks.On 12th November 1914 he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He sailed to England on the SS Scandanavian on 13th of May 1915, arriving on the 22nd. He left Folkestone for France on 23rd of September 1915 and served with the 250th Tunnelling Company until 31st December that year.
He fought with the 19th Battalion through 1916 and was wounded at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in June 1917. William was transferred to the Military Hospital in Southhall and later Hastings and was discharged in December 1917. He was promoted to Lance Corporal but later was admitted to Bramshott Military Hospital and spent 4 months suffering from Influenza.
William was discharged from the Canadian Military in March 1919 and married Mary Jane Holdsworth from Bramley West Yorkshire. They raised 2 children Jack and Maisie Allen and he died peacefully in Scarborough East Yorkshire in 1987 at the age of 95.
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