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| 21/02/2019 |
The History of Coagh booklet lists Norman Allen as having served. |
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| 21/02/2019 |
Private Allen survived the war. He would have been about 20 years old when the war ended. |
| 21/02/2019 |
It is believed ‘R Effusion Slt’ is a medical term which may mean severe iritis effusion of the right lung. |
| 21/02/2019 |
Latterly, Private Norman Allen served with the Royal Irish Regiment, with the Service No 3347. |
| 21/02/2019 |
A military document entitled ‘Sick and wounded NCOs and men of the Expeditionary Force – France’ records that 1711 Private N Allen, Service Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles, had pleurisy ‘R Effusion Slt.’ He was admitted to the 3rd Canadian General Hospital on 7th October 1916. |
| 21/02/2019 |
Private Norman Allen served with the 9th Royal Irish Rifles for a time, with the Service No 17118. |
| 21/02/2019 |
The 1911 census lists a Norman J Allen living with as age 13, living with relatives at house 18 in Coagh. Samuel and Jane McKelvey were his aunt and uncle. Norman was still at school. |
| 21/02/2019 |
Norman John Allen was born in County Antrim about 1898. |
