Alfred John Allman

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

772530

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Greater London

Birth city:

London

Address at enlistment:

Tutela P.O., Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

Tutela P.O., Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Bench hand

Employer:

Cockshutt Plow Co.

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

BX September 16, 1918

Alfred John Allman, Jane Street off the Mohawk Road, is reported as having been wounded in the head on September 4.

BX March 31, 1943

Alfred John Allman

The death took place Tuesday at the Brantford General Hospital, of Alfred John Allman. Mr. Allman who was in his fifty-ninth year, was born in England and came to Brantford thirty-four years ago. He was an employee of the Cockshutt Plow Company for thirty-three years and at the time of his death he was foreman of the mill room. Mr. Allman served in the First Great War. He went overseas with the 125th Battalion, and was wounded in France. Mr. Allman was a member of Salisbury Lodge, Sons of England, and of the Ex-Service Men’s Association of the Cockshutt Plow Company. Besides his widow, he leaves to mourn his loss, two sons, Alfred Allman, Brantford, and David Allman, Canadian Army Overseas; three daughters, Mrs. Norman Carr, Miss Grace Allman and Miss Lorene Allman, all of Brantford; one brother, Richard Allman, Brantford, and two sisters, Mrs. C. Smith, England, and Mrs. T. Vaughan, England. Mr. Allman is resting at his home, 34 Eighth Avenue, until Friday afternoon when services will be conducted at the Beckett Funeral Home. Interment will be in Mount Hope Cemetery.

BX April 5, 1943

Allman, Alfred John (772530)

The funeral service of Alfred John Allman was conducted Friday afternoon at the Beckett Funeral Home. Rev. T.D. Painting, Holy Trinity Church, was in charge. The funeral was largely attended by many friends and relatives of the deceased as well as an official representation from the Cockshutt Plow Company, where Mr. Allman was a foreman, fellow workers from the company, and from the Kith and Kin Club who attended out of respect for Mrs. Allman. The many floral tributes from the management, Ex-Service Men’s Association and Foremen’s Association of the Cockshutt Plow Company, were evidence of the esteem in which Mr. Allman was held. The pallbearers were Richard Allman, Sr., Norman Carr, Charles Webber, Robert Vair, Alfred Morgan and Joseph Habbershaw. The flower-bearers were A. Clever, W. Robbins, H. Burtch, H. Nurrish and R. Allman, Jr. The Last Post and Reveille were sounded by Bugler W. Bassant. Interment was in Mount Hope Cemetery.