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.

• connection. John Allen's connection to me is as follows:
John Allen (1952)
His father is Michael Allen (1925)
His father was John Allen (1900)
His father was Herbert Allen (1864)
His father was Herbert Allen (1840)
His father was Charles Allen (1817) who married Ann Rice (1816)
Her mother was Sarah Rice (1791) who with John Towels (1783) had
Thomas Towells (1829) who with Sarah Smith had Thomas Towells (1862)
He had Elizabeth Towells (1891) who married Louis Allen (1891)
They had Enid Allen (1928) who married Ronald Whaites (1931)
His father was Hurtle Whaites (1886) & he also had William Whaites (1915) who married Doris Davies (1917)
Her father was Thomas Davies (1881)
His father was Joseph Davies (1852) who also had G A Davies (1894)
He had Colin Davies (1925)
He had me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

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.