Name
David Howard
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/12/1920
39
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
206228
East Surrey Regiment
2nd/1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HERTFORD (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD
3rd Quarter, Row 8, Grave 30.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hertford memorials
Pre War
Born in 1881 in Hertford son of Johanna Howard living in 7a Bircherley Street, Hertford in 1891, 1901 and 1911. He was a chimney sweep.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford on 8 Nov 1915 formerly 5764 Hertfordshire Regiment but transferred to the East Surrey Regiment on 22 May 1917. He joined the battalion in the field on 18 Apr 1918 and sustained a gunshot wound to the jaw on 7 May 1918 and was transferred to Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup where he was treated by Mr Harold Gillies, Plastic Surgeon (Gillies Archive Record Number 744), but died there two years later.
Additional Information
David's headstone is place at the head of the family plot containing his parents.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
