Merton L. Allen

    Merton Lewis Allen, son of Ira William and Lottie Belle Allen, was born in Woolrich, Maine, May 28, 1898. He had 1 sibling, a sister Neva. He worked as a clerk with the Boston & Maine Railroad.
    Allen enlisted April 9, 1917, and was sent overseas September 7 of that year. He died June 11, 1918, at Base Hospital 18, Bazoilles, France.

Boston Evening Globe, June 8, 1921
A military funeral will be given private Merton L. Allen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira W. Allen of 23 Revere st., Linden, who paid the supreme sacrifice in France and whose body reached here yesterday. The funeral will be held next Sunday afternoon at the Linden Methodist Church and members of Malden Post of the American Legion will attend.