Canadian Forces

Arnold Allen, killed by allied bombing

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Arnold Howard Allen, was born 5 January 1922 in Lower Ohio, Shelburne County. He was a mechanic when he enlisted in Halifax on 11 April 1941and joined the Cape Breton Highlanders Regiment. He trained at Aldershot, Nova Scotia. While there he met Joyce Marie Bent. Arnold was sent to Bermuda for two years. On his return to Aldershot he married Joyce in Kentville on 26 April 1944 and some time later embarked for England. There he switched to the Second Battalion, Algonquin Regiment, Royal Canadian Rifle Infantry and was sent to France on 25 August 1944. Arnold was in Belgium when he was reported missing on 14 September 1944. On 3 January 1945 word was received that he was a prisoner of war in the German camp at Leipzeg. Arnold was killed, during an Allied Air Raid when bombs were dropped on the camp where he was held. His daughter, Johanna Arnold Allen was born in Kentville, Nova Scotia, one week before her father was killed on 22 February 1945. Arnold is buried at Groesbeek Canadian Military Cemetery, Grave 1, Row D, Plot 12, Gelderland, Netherlands. Morton Allen, in interviews, related since he was twelve years older than Arnold, the youngest of his nine siblings, he was not closely involved with events during Arnold's growing up years. Morton enlisted in 1940 and they met at Aldershot in 1941 when the snapshot was taken. Morton was in England when Arnold was killed. He remembers Arnold wrote about being forced to work in a mill while he was a prsioner.