Sidney Allinson

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Sidney Allinson (born in Witton le Wear, Durham, England, October 20, 1930) is an author. He presently resides in Victoria, British Columbia, having previously lived in Toronto.

He grew up in Southport, UK attended Christ Church Secondary School, was employed by The Southport Guardian newspaper, and served overseas with Great Britain's Royal Air Force before emigrating to Canada in 1951.[1]

He has written factual military history including "The Bantams: The untold story of World War One," and historically-based fiction, including Kruger's Gold, a novel set during the Second Anglo-Boer War, and "Jeremy Kane: A Canadian historical novel of the 1837 Mackenzie Rebellion and its brutal aftermath in the penal colonies of Australia].

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