Biographical notes

Birth date deduced from death certificate and Census returns. According to death certificate a Sargeant in the Scots Grays. Parent names from death certificate, mother's maiden name was Jane Wyllie. Informant of death was brother in law, David Allan

Written reminiscence by Wallace Allan (1848-1931), written 1930 states that he was a veteran of the Battle of Waterloo. 1841 census gives his occupation as auctioneer. In 1851, occupation recorded as a Chelsea Pensioner