SUBMARINE OFFICER MISSING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 115, 19 May 1942, Page 4

SUBMARINE OFFICER MISSING

COLLEGIATE OLD BOY LIEUT. P. R. H. ALLEN, R.N. Lieut. P. R. H. Allen, R.N., only son of Colonel Sir Stephen Allen, K.8.E., C.M.G., D. 5.0., and Lady 1 Allen, of Morrinsville, has been re1 ported missing and his submarine ■ overdue in the Mediterranean. Lieut. Allen has a splendid record. Educated at King’s Preparatory ■ School and Wanganui Collegiate School—where he won the school’s most noted award, the Marshall Memorial Exhibition—he entered the Royal Navy nine months before the 3 war. His record in passing fhe varls ous examinations was particularly good, and he next served as a midshipman in H.M.S. Norfolk and Ber- . wick, transferring to H.M. destroyer 2 Vanessa and then to H.M.S. Nelson. 1 Followed shore courses, in which fie y took first-class passes in all subjects, t obtaining the Admiralty’s maximum 1 seniority and other awards. As a e sub-lieutenant he volunteered for t submarine service and, after comt pleting a special course, was sent to e Malta. Gazetted lieutenant from s January 1, having reached the age e of 20, he temporarily served in a / Polish submarine until finally apn pointed to the submarine which now 1 is reported overdue. 1 Lieut.-Colonel J. M. Allen, member o for Hauraki, who was killed in action j in Libya last year, was a cousin of i Lieut. P. R. H. Allen. Lieut.-Colonel 1 J. M. Alien’s frther was killed in the ■ j war of ( 1914-18. ’ • -A