Name
George Edwin Howe
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/02/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
36352
Royal Berkshire Regiment
6th Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
REGINA TRENCH CEMETERY, GRANDCOURT
VIII. G. 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
High Wych Village Memorial, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
George was born at Chandlers Lane, High Wych in 1896. In the 1911 census he was living at Actons Farm and was a ‘Farm Labourer’.
Wartime Service
Formerly 5737 in the Hertfordshire Regiment. After initial training with 1/2nd Hertfordshire Regiment, George was assigned to the 6th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment.
In February 1917, this Battalion was in line during ‘Operations on the Ancre’. The date of George’s death was 17 February 1917. The Battalion diary shows that there was no major action that day which implies that George’s death was due to the general daily attrition, a part of trench life at the front. George Howe is buried at Regina Trench Cemetery, Grandcourt, France. He was aged 20.
Additional Information
George Howe is amongst the men pictured.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Douglas Coe
