In All Saints Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave with a private headstone of Lieutenant Robert Allen serving with H.M.S. “Actaeon” Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve who died 29/11/1918.

The son of Thomas and Mary Jane Allen, of Newcastle upon Tyne.

The headstone reads:

In
Memoriam
Mary Jane
beloved wife of
Thomas Allen,
born July 31st 1849
died April 11th 1910

also
Lieut. R. Allen, R.N.V.R.
died November 29th 1918
R.N. Hospital, Chatham.

Also
Thomas Allen
born August 23rd 1853,
died November 27th 1924.

The Newcastle Journal 03/12/1918 reports:-
ALLEN —At Chatham Naval Hospital, of influenza, 29th November, Lieut. Robert Allen, R.N.V.R., son Thomas Allan, 1, Eslington Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne. Funeral 11 at All Saints Cemetery today at 11 o’clock.

Robert Allen is remembered at Jesmond on J1.04 as P Allen and in J1.19 and in our List of Ships’ Crews.