Jonathan William Allen

A Bombardier with 148 (The Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment. Jonathan died on 13th of November 1943 aged 35. 

Jonathan was born at Luton, Bedfordshire, on 21 August 1908, a son of Jonathan William and Emma Allen. In 1911 his family lived at 16 Cumberland Road, Houghton Regis and in 1921 his family lived at 109 High Street, Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire, and later at 29 Drury Lane, Houghton Regis. 

Jonathan enlisted in the Royal Artillery in 1935. He served with the 148th (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment. 

Jonathan married Edith Irene Newrick in 1941, this was registered in the Luton district. Edith was from Lowestoft and lived at 18 Kirkley Street, Lowestoft. She remarried in 1945. 

At the start of World War Two his Regiment was assigned to the 18th (East Anglian) Division. In June 1941 the Regiment was at Rochdale. In December 1941 they arrived in India and by February 1942 at Singapore. 

Jonathan was captured at the Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942. He was one of the British prisoners of war made to work, by the Japanese, on the Thai-Burma Railway. He died at Tasao (Tarsau) Camp from cholera or dysentery and was buried at Tasao No. 2 Cemetery. In 1946 he was reburied at Kanchanaburi.

Initially it was reported that he had died at some time between 1 and 31 January 1944, but later concluded that he had died on 13 November 1943.