London Regiment 19th Bn
Son of Mr and Mrs George Allan.
George Allan, born at Mauchline, Ayrshire, in 1885, had two spells at Partick Thistle Football Club in Glasgow, making a total of 61 appearances and scoring seven goals. George also had a spell playing for Ayr United.
On 17 March 1916, the Dundee Courier reported, 'Accidental death was the verdict returned at an inquest at Winchester yesterday on Second Lieutenant George Allan, a well-known Scottish footballer.
Allan was one of a party receiving instruction in firing trench bombs from a spring gun. He apparently thought that the fuse had failed to ignite, and leaned over to make sure, when the bomb-carrier flew up, striking him in the face and causing shocking injuries, as a result of which he died in ten minutes.
The instructing officer said that had a live bomb been used instead of a dummy bomb, probably ten or twelve of those receiving instruction would have been killed. The flight of the bomb was restricted by striking the deceased.
Son of Mr and Mrs George Allan.
George Allan, born at Mauchline, Ayrshire, in 1885, had two spells at Partick Thistle Football Club in Glasgow, making a total of 61 appearances and scoring seven goals. George also had a spell playing for Ayr United.
On 17 March 1916, the Dundee Courier reported, 'Accidental death was the verdict returned at an inquest at Winchester yesterday on Second Lieutenant George Allan, a well-known Scottish footballer.
Allan was one of a party receiving instruction in firing trench bombs from a spring gun. He apparently thought that the fuse had failed to ignite, and leaned over to make sure, when the bomb-carrier flew up, striking him in the face and causing shocking injuries, as a result of which he died in ten minutes.
The instructing officer said that had a live bomb been used instead of a dummy bomb, probably ten or twelve of those receiving instruction would have been killed. The flight of the bomb was restricted by striking the deceased.
London Regiment 19th Bn
Son of Mr and Mrs George Allan.
George Allan, born at Mauchline, Ayrshire, in 1885, had two spells at Partick Thistle Football Club in Glasgow, making a total of 61 appearances and scoring seven goals. George also had a spell playing for Ayr United.
On 17 March 1916, the Dundee Courier reported, 'Accidental death was the verdict returned at an inquest at Winchester yesterday on Second Lieutenant George Allan, a well-known Scottish footballer.
Allan was one of a party receiving instruction in firing trench bombs from a spring gun. He apparently thought that the fuse had failed to ignite, and leaned over to make sure, when the bomb-carrier flew up, striking him in the face and causing shocking injuries, as a result of which he died in ten minutes.
The instructing officer said that had a live bomb been used instead of a dummy bomb, probably ten or twelve of those receiving instruction would have been killed. The flight of the bomb was restricted by striking the deceased.
Son of Mr and Mrs George Allan.
George Allan, born at Mauchline, Ayrshire, in 1885, had two spells at Partick Thistle Football Club in Glasgow, making a total of 61 appearances and scoring seven goals. George also had a spell playing for Ayr United.
On 17 March 1916, the Dundee Courier reported, 'Accidental death was the verdict returned at an inquest at Winchester yesterday on Second Lieutenant George Allan, a well-known Scottish footballer.
Allan was one of a party receiving instruction in firing trench bombs from a spring gun. He apparently thought that the fuse had failed to ignite, and leaned over to make sure, when the bomb-carrier flew up, striking him in the face and causing shocking injuries, as a result of which he died in ten minutes.
The instructing officer said that had a live bomb been used instead of a dummy bomb, probably ten or twelve of those receiving instruction would have been killed. The flight of the bomb was restricted by striking the deceased.
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