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The Roll of Honour lists his address as "Sharstead", Thorpe Road.
(CWGC records that Captain Norman Allen of B Company, 2nd Battalion (posted to 14th Battalion) Royal Warwickshire Regiment died aged 25 on 14/4/1918; he is commemorated on Special Memorial IV.D.8 at Merville Communal Cemetery Extension in France. They record him as the son of Charles William and Marian Allen of "Sharsted", Thorpe Road, Peterborough, and the husband of Genevieve Marie Alice Maurette Allen (nee Frebourg) of 15 Rue Cemuschi in Paris.
On 27/4/1918 the Peterborough Advertiser reported his death, stating he had attended Deacon's School before qualifying as a dentist. He was working at Guy's Hospital when he enlisted on 1/9/1914 in the Artist's Rifles, and was sent to France in January 1915. He had obtained his commission in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment the following May (his commission as Temporary 2nd Lieutenant was published in the London Gazette on 4/6/1915). He was wounded in action in September, and returned to France twelve months later. In 1917 he had married Genevieve Frebourg).