Kenneth Harris's Story.
Birkenhead News 16 October 1918BIRKENHEAD OFFICER DIES OF WOUNDS.
Lieut. Kenneth H. Allen, third son of Mr. and Mrs. George T. Allen, of Alexandra Road, Claughton, died of wounds in France on the 11th inst. at the age of 23 years. He joined the K.L.R. on August 6th, 1914, going to France with his battalion in February, 1915, and was at the front until August, 1915, when he was granted a commission, and gazetted to the Manchester Regiment. He was severely wounded on the first day of the battle of the Somme, July, 1st, 1916, on which day one of his brothers, Lieut. S. R. Allen, also of the Manchesters, was killed. After about a year he went to Salonika, returning to France some few months ago.