Name: ALLUM, JOHN PATRICK
Initials: J P
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: East Surrey Regiment
Secondary Regiment: Worcestershire Regiment
Secondary Unit Text: attd. 1st Bn.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 24/01/1945
Service No: 299664
Additional information: Son of Horace Benjamin Allum, C.B.E., and Mary Josephine Frances Allum, of Whitstable, Kent.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. 278.
Cemetery: BRUNSSUM WAR CEMETERY

 

At Tripsrath the Pioneer Platoon, led by the Pioneer Officer Lieut. J. Allum, spent nights reconnoitring, sweeping, lifting and mines, by some mischance, when the task was almost completed and over 1,100 mines had been removed, Lieut. Allum prodded a particularly sensitive one and blew himself up

Worcestershire Regiment - Roll Of Honour