Sidney Allinson is a Canadian author

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 and military historian. He was a Creative Director with Ogilvy & Mather International Advertising, then served as Communications Policy Adviser to the Ontario Government. Sidney Allinson now resides in Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria, British Columbia

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, having previously lived in Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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 and Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

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. He is a past-Director of the Royal Canadian Military Institute

Royal Canadian Military Institute

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, Chairman of the Pacific Coast Branch of the Western Front Association, and President of the Winston Spencer Churchill Society of Vancouver Island.

He grew up in Southport

Southport

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, UK

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 attended Christ Church Secondary School, was employed by The Southport Guardian newspaper, and served overseas with Great Britain's Royal Air Force

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 before emigrating to Canada in 1951.http://icseftonandwestlancs.icnetwork.co.uk/icsouthport/yourviews/page.cfm?objectid=13985128&method=full&siteid=60252&start=43

He has written factual military history including "The Bantams: The untold story of World War One," and historically-based fiction

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, 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

Australia

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