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Allen, R.B., Sgt., 1943

Photo: Barney Rice

In Durham Road Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave of:

1448941 Sergeant R.B.Allen,
Air Gunner
Royal Air Force
20th August 1943 age 37

He died
That we may live

Sgt. Allen was serving with 10 Sqdn. He was a crew member of Halifax II JD119 ZA-C which took off on a training flight, lost a propeller and crashed near Market Harborough. Five of the seven crew members were killed.

Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943; W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3

Ronald Burnip Allen is remembered in an R.A.F. Roll of Honour page 3


The CWGC entry for Sergeant Allen

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