Comboyne will remember WW1 hero Jack Allen on Anzac Day

April 24 2017 - 5:10pm
Distinguished soldier, Corporal Jack Alan from Comboyne
Distinguished soldier, Corporal Jack Alan from Comboyne

John Richard Alan, known as Jack was born in Taree and arrived on the Comboyne Plateau in 1902, aged 25. He took up 328 acres and cleared enough land to start dairying and was the first to send cream, packed on horses, down to the factory at Wingham.

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