Name
Edwin Cecil Howard
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/03/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
300232
London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade)
1st/5th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ACHICOURT ROAD CEMETERY, ACHICOURT
A. 1O.
France
Headstone Inscription
WITH THEE O LORD FOR EVER TO ABIDE
UK & Other Memorials
Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar, Not on the South Mimms memorials
Pre War
Edwin Cecil Howard was born in 1891 in South Mimms, Potters bar to Edward Howard, a coal trade clerk, and Muriel (nee Pursell).
On the 1901 Census the family of parents and Edwin were living at Southgate Road South Mimms.
On the 1911 Census the Family of parents (father was now a Coal & Builders Merchant) and Edwin, now working as an insurance Clerk, were living at 1 Morven Villas, South Mimms.
Wartime Service
No Service record was found for Edwin.. Edwin enlisted (possibly soon after the outbreak of the Great War, in the London Regiment of the territorial Force as Private 9919* in the 1st/5th (City of London) Battalion (London Rifle Brigade.
This Battalion went to France on 5 Nov 1914 to join 11 Brigade 4th Division,
On the Medal Rolls for the Battalion Edwin was in France on 11 Jul 1916 as Acting Warrant Officer 2 until 26 Jul 1916 when he was transferred to No 2 Entrenching Battalion. He was returned to 1/5 Battalion of his Regiment on 19 Oct 1916. In early 1917 his Battalion now part of 56 (1st London) Division to part in following the German Retreat to the Hindenberg Line (14 Mar-5 Apr 1917). On 21 Mar 1917 during this advance Edwin was killed in action.
Additional Information
After his death £32 18s 5d was authorised to go to his father on 4 October 1917 and later a war gratuity of £13 was authorised to be paid to him on 10 October 1919.
* The Service Number 35 was issued on 6 Aug 1914, 1919 would have been shortly prior to this as 9999 would require the Battalion to begin a new sequence. His number 300232 was derived from the Territorial Force renumbering in 1917.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
