Acting Sergeant Henry Allen
The background of this man is not known at present.
Henry Allen enlisted in the Dragoons of the Line in 1914 or 1915 (No. GS/20318 – later Corps of Dragoons No. D/16252). Posted to the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), he embarked for France in 1916 or the first half of 1917, possibly at the end of June 1916, having been posted to the headquarters establishment of the 2nd North Irish Horse Regiment following the formation of that regiment in France from C and F Squadrons and the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons Service Squadron. The headquarters, formed in England and comprising 40 officers and men, joined the new regiment in France at the beginning of July.
The 2nd North Irish Horse Regiment served as corps cavalry to X Corps until August-September 1917, when the regiment was disbanded and its men were transferred to the Royal Irish Fusiliers, an infantry regiment. Allen, it appears, was not one of those transferred.
Nothing more has been discovered about his military service during the remainder of the war. On 2 May 1919 he was demobilised and transferred to Class Z, Army Reserve.