CORPORAL ALLEN PLAYED THE HERO.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14740, 20 October 1915, Page 5

CORPORAL ALLEN PLAYED THE HERO.

HANDLED ONE MACHINE GUN !i AFTBk ANOTHER. LONDON, August 17. Dr Benjamin Rand, in a letter to 'i ‘ the Times, claims that too little atten* 1 tion has been given to the gallant i deeds of individual Canadian officer*. I ,| 1 and men who fought at Ypres, and : J ,he goes on to instance the case of .a Lance-Corporal Allen, of the Tenth “I Brigade'. Allen, he says, was awarded 'A the D.C.M. two months ago, but the “M brief official record of bis deeds did s? not do him justice, as the following hi report of one of his officers will tea-- .*'J tify:— Ij “I will give you some idea of what - « ! Alien did," says the officer. "Our ma- - chine guns were put of. action except % (he one Allen was. handling, so you ‘.2 clan imagine what it was like when T ’*S tell you that he was the only man left 'll in that part of the trench, and it had !|| probably held about 40 men. H«i|| fought at least 30 minutes on his own v -*|l ' He' hatf to set his gun up two or tbrje Affl times, and then It was final 1 '- smashedci by a‘shell. He went along the to the next gun and old the * with that. . When the last run TcdupH s smashed. Allen banged away v'th 1 tnfam rifle until he , was killed. He un&|i| deserved the V.C." ,Jl|h