Name
Frederick John Howe (MM)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/10/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
10/20965
Border Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Military Medal
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 85 to 86.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Baldock Town Memorial,
St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Baldock,
Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Son of John Howe, of 75, Westfield Rd., West Ealing, London.
Frederick lived at Church Yard, Baldock.
Wartime Service
In December 1917 Frederick's father received news that his son, who went to France with the First British Expeditionary Force, had been posted as missing since October 26, but later that was recorded as the date of his death. Frederick's eldest brother was a prisoner of war in Germany at the time.
Frederick was formerly 10150 in the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment.
Additional Information
Son of John Howe, of 75, Westfield Rd., West Ealing, London.
This man’s connection to the Bedfordshire and
Hertfordshire Regiment may be misleading. This combined regiment was not
officially formed until 1919, but arguably the process began in May 1918 with
the amalgamation of the remnants of Hertfordshire Regiment with those of the
6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. When men died before 1919 it is likely
that they were officially still in one or the other of the individual
regiments. In the absence of other information we are recording them as related
to Hertfordshire, rather than miss such a relationship.
Acknowledgments
Derry Warners
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson, Jonty Wild
