Source: Duty Nobly Done Roll of Honour 18th Bn. compiled and edited by Edward H. Wigney.
Family Search: When Private Roy Lyman Allen was born on 12 December 1890, in London, Canada West, British North America, his father, Benoni Allen, was 29 and his mother, Amanda Condy, was 21. He married Florence Irene Flossie Arnold on 5 April 1912, in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 26, his occupation is listed as carpenter in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 17 November 1917, in Passendale, West Flanders, Belgium, at the age of 26.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 