Sgt. Allison was serving with 101 Squadron. He was a crew member of Lancaster I W4863 SR-G which took off from Holme-on-Spalding-Moor on a mission to Dortmund. The aircraft crashed in Yorkshire, killing four and injuring three.On the night of 4-5th May 1942, 41 aircraft failed to return from this mission, each carrying a crew of eight.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943;W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3
He is remembered in Hartlepool on H115.41, in West Hartlepool W111.17, in the RAF Book of Remembrance and in the list of 1939-1945 Military and Civilian Casualties