Allenby Joseph Cpl 4456025
Personnel Entry
Name Allenby Joseph
Army number 4456025
Rank Corporal (shown as a Private in August 1942)
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Research indicates birth in Q4 1913 - registered in Gateshead. Mother's maiden name McQuiggan. (Issue over surname spelling - shown as Allanby in some records).
Age 58 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date - probably Spring 1939. Posted to the 9th Battalion? Posted to the 12th Battalion 1/9/1939?. Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/40, Posted to the 1st TS. Posted to Brigade HQ 5/4/40. Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France. Posted to 23rd Division HQ. Evacuated via Dunkirk. Returned to the UK. Posted to No. 8 Infantry Training Centre, Perth by August 1942. Relegated to the Class Z Army Reserve 21/1/46. Demobilised. Re-enlisted in the Royal Artillery (CA & AA) TA Number retained. Discharged under TA Regs 1936 Para 204-6(a) 12/5/47.
Company/Battery Not yet known. Brigade HQ.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Not yet known.
Joined Brigade Probably 1/9/1939.
Promotions Listed as Private in 1942 but Corporal before then.
Wounded Not so far as is known
Prisoner of War No.
Died/Killed in action Research indicates death in Q2 1971 aged 58 in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Home address 143, Sutton Dwellings, Barrack Rd. Newcastle. Research indicates a marriage in Q3 1942 to Elizabeth A Snaith in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Source table 23N
Joseph featured in the War Office "missing" exercise of 1942.
