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Major General Arthur Samuel "Tubby" Allen, CB, CBE, DSO, VD (10 March 1894 – 25 January 1959) was an Australian Army officer and accountant. During the Second World War he reached the rank of major general and commanded Allied forces in the Syria–Lebanon and New Guinea campaigns.
Arthur Samuel Allen (1894-1959), army officer and accountant, was born on 10 March 1894 at Hurstville, Sydney, fifth child of John Allen, a native-born engine driver, and his English wife Annie, née Hadfield.
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Allen arrived in France on 8 June 1916 and fought at Pozieres in August. He remained in the front line on the Somme into 1917 and led his men through the battle of Messines in June. His leadership amidst heavy losses earned Allen the Distinguished Service Order and a promotion to major in July.
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Memoirs of soldiers who fought in New Guinea show that General Allen, and his predecessor, Brigadier Potts (who had been dismissed despite his efforts in defence of the Kokoda trail) were highly regarded by their men.
Blunt in speech, honest as the day, choleric yet kindly, without affectation or pomposity, he was a leader of a kind that immediately appeals to Australians. His military lore is drawn from experience rather than study, and is based upon a wide and sympathetic knowledge of men in battle.
Discover the career of Sydney-born Tubby Allen, an Australian General who earned the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for service during the Great War and went on to command troops during the Second World War in North Africa, Greece, and Syria before deployment to Papua New Guinea to face the Japanese threat at Kokoda.
This is a brief biographical sketch of the military career of Major-General Arthur Samuel Allen. He was a general during World War Two.
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