Wearing a small plaid patterned suit, tie with a white shirt. Right hand with forefinger resting on his cheek.

Bio/historical note: William Allen was born in England in the year 1892. He immigrated to Canada with some of his family in 1911, taking out a homestead at Smiley, Saskatchewan. He joined the army in 1915, was wounded at the battle of Somme in 1916 and sent to the Beaufort War Hospital to recuperate. Upon returning to Canada he entered the University of Saskatchewan as an associate student in Agriculture and graduated in 1922. His studies took him to Harvard and Cornell Universities where he achieved a Ph.D. in Agriculture Economics in 1925. He returned to the University of Saskatchewan as head of the Department of Farm Management and then later accepted a position of the first Commissioner to Britain for Canadian Agriculture. In 1941 while returning to his duties in England he lost his life at sea when the steamship Nerissaa he was on was torpedoed. He married Gwendolen Maude Woodward in 1926.