Frederick's Story.
EARLY LIFE
Frederick Allman was baptised on 11th July 1883 at Christ Church, Macclesfield, the son of Ann and James Allman, a farm labourer of Macclesfield. In 1891, 8 year old Frederick was living at 4 Townley Place with his parents and brothers William (13), Albert (4) and Walter (1). Ten years later in 1901, Frederick was boarding with the family of William and Agnes Brown at 34 Albert Street, Kettering, and employed as a brush maker.
Frederick married Florence Delcie Freeman at Camberwell in early 1911; after Frederick's death, Florence was living at 107 Fort Road, Bermondsey.
WW1 SERVICE
Frederick attested at Manchester and entered France on 26th July 1915. On 21st October 1915 he was reported by the War Office to be wounded and missing; on 26th December he was said to have been 'killed in action at some time between 27th September and 15th October 1915'.
COMMEMORATION
Private Fred Allman has no known grave and is commemorated on Panel Ref. 5 to 7 on the Loos Memorial at Pas-de-Calais, France. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission holds casualty details for Private Fred Allman, and he is listed on the Imperial War Museum’s Lives of the First World War website.
In Macclesfield, Private Fred Allman is commemorated on the Park Green, Town Hall and St Michael's Church war memorials.
The floral tributes laid when the Macclesfield Park Green War Memorial was unveiled on 21st September 1921 included one with the words "In fond remembrance of George, Frank, and Fred Allman, from father, brother and family."
NOTES
Brother of George Allman, who died in France in February 1915; Frank Allman, who died in France in October 1915; and Walter Allman, who survived the war.
SOURCES
Family History Society of Cheshire (FHSC): Macclesfield Christ Church CD – Baptism transcriptions
GRO (England & Wales) Index: Marriages
Census (England & Wales): 1891, 1901
WWI British Army Registers of Soldiers’ Effects
Lives of the First World War website
Commonwealth War Graves Commission website
WWI Pension Record Cards (WFA/Ancestry/Fold3)
Macclesfield Courier: 24 Sept 1921
Research by Rosie Rowley, Congleton.