Howes, Harold

BORN FULHAM, LONDON, 07/11/1816. SON OF WILLIAM HENRY HOWES (HARRY) AND ANNIE GRACE ABBOTT, ABOVE ADDRESS. HIS FATHER WAS A RETAIL MANAGER OF A DRAPERY. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. HE LIVED IN ISLINGTON, ENLISTED IN LONDON. EX 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.


First name:
HAROLD
Military Number:
724552
Rank:
Private
Date Died
31/10/1917
Place died:
Bersheba War Cemetery, Egypt
Age:
30
3 , RIBBLE STREET, HULL, EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried