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Biography: Allen, Stephen Shepherd

Stephen Shepherd Allen (left) and Joseph Gordon Coates

Stephen Shepherd Allen (left) and Joseph Gordon Coates

Military leader Sir Stephen Allen and member of the War Cabinet Gordon Coates were photographed together in uniform early in the Second World War.

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Ian McGibbon. 'Allen, Stephen Shepherd', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2582/stephen-shepherd-allen-left-and-joseph-gordon-coates (accessed 4 June 2026).