Career

Allex entered the United States Army in Chicago, Illinois, and returned there following World War I, with the rank of Sergeant. While in the Army he served in Company H, 131st Infantry, 33rd Infantry Division. On August 9, 1918, near Chippilly Ridge, France, when finding all of their officers either wounded or killed and his platoon under heavy attack from the opposing German forces, Allex, a Corporal, took command.

Leading his platoon forward toward the machine gun nest, his platoon was able to overwhelm the opposition.

Allex alone killed five enemy soldiers, and when his bayonet broke, he used the butt of his rifle in close quarters combat, taking fifteen German prisoners. Little is known about his life following the First World War.

He died August 28, 1959 in a Veterans Administration hospital in Chicago. He was buried in Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Saint Sava cemetery in Libertyville, Illinois.