John Donald Allen

   Another name for John was Jack Jos.

  General Notes:

GIVEN_NAMES: Also shown as John Jack

  Noted events in his life were:

• Education: As a Missionary child he later went away to boarding school, to Dale College, Kingwilliamstown, and Selborne College, East London, 1906-1917.

• Home: We lived on a farm outside Johannesburg, at Highlands North, Abt 1939.

• Profession: He was a Houseman in two hospitals in UK:, 1925.

• WW1: He was in England as a trainee pilot in the 'new' RAF, 1917-1918.

• Career: He returned to South Africa, to an appointment in Walvis Bay, as General Practitioner and Railway Doctor, 1925.

• WW2: He became a Colonel in the SAMC, 'up North', 1939-1944.

• Alt. Death, 26 Jan 1957.

• Education: As a Missionary child, he later went away to boarding school, to Dale College, Kingwilliamstown, and Selborne College, East London, 1906-1917.

• Education: Briefly he was a student at Rhodes University, Abt 1919.

• Education: He was a Medical Student at Barts (St Bartholomew's Hospital) in London, England, 1920-1924.

• Career: The family moved to Knysna, under the auspices of 'old' Knysna friends from the RAF, Abt 1927.

• Career: Jack moved to an appointment at the Johannesburg Miner's Phthisis Board, Abt 1938.

• Career: Medical Suoerintendent of Germiston Hospital, 1945-1946.

• Career: Medical Superintendent of Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, Johannesburg, 1947-1957.

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John married Private

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Church Wedding: Married in Fish Hoek Church, on Jack's return to SA, on insistence of.