Air Vice Marshal CEH Allen
Charles Edward Hamilton Allen
Air officers
- Rank
- Air Vice Marshal
- Honours
- CB DFC
- School
- Sea Point Boys' High School, University of Cambridge
- Born
- 1899
- Fate
- Survived the war. Died 1975
- In the book
- Pages 30, 166
From the book
Links of Long Standing
Charles Edward Hamilton Allen, born in Cape Town in 1899 and educated at Sea Point Boys High and Cambridge, joined the RFC in 1917. Awarded the “Distinguished Flying Cross” in 1918 and appointed to a permanent commission in 1919, he served in various flying and non-flying capacities before the war. A Group Captain by 1940, he served in technical capacities during the Second World War. Appointed an Air Commodore in 1947, Air Vice Marshal CEH Allen CB DFC retired in 1954 and died in 1975.