Lieutenant George Albert Thomas Boris ALLAN (1935)

122nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
Born 28 October 1916 in Horsham, West Sussex
Killed in action 10 February 1942, aged 25
Buried at Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore

George Allan was the son of George Albert Thomas Allan OBE, and of Mary Louise Allan, née Barnes, of Laleham, Staines, Middlesex.

He was educated at St Paul’s School, and took a third in Geography in 1938.

The 122nd Field Regiment, after training in the UK, went out to the Far East, arriving in Malaya on 11 March 1941. They suffered thirteen war casualties during the Malayan Campaign, of whom Allan was one, up until the naval base at Singapore surrendered on 15 February 1942.