BORN FULHAM, LONDON, 07/11/1816. SON OF WILLIAM HENRY HOWES (HARRY) AND ANNIE GRACE ABBOTT, OF, 3, RIBBLE STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL. HIS FATHER WAS A RETAIL MANAGER OF A DRAPERY STORE. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN.
HE LIVED IN ISLINGTON. HIS WIFE EMILY AND 4 CHILDREN, LIVED AT 33. WINDSOR STREET, ISLINGTON (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN LONDON. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 5844, 22ND LONDON REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION AT BERSHEBA, EGYPT, ON 31/10/1917, AGED 30.
HE IS RECORDED AS KILLED, ON HULL’S RIBBLE STREET, ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 22 September 1916)
HIS ELDEST BROTHER, JOSEPH WILLIAM HOWES, DIED IN CANADA IN 1918. ANOTHER BROTHER, AUGUSTUS HOWES, RE’S WAS KILLED AT LOOS, ON 29/09/1915. BROTHERS FRANK & ROBERT HOWES LIVED AT 15, ST. GEORGES ROAD, HULL, AND ALSO SERVED.
