Name
George Edwin Howe
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/05/1918
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
265865
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
Q. III. F. 19.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans, St Saviours Church Memorial, St Albans, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Sawbridgeworth memorial
Pre War
Born in Sawbridgeworth on 14th February 1881 son of Mr And Mrs William Howe. William was a Police Constable (died 1909).
Prior to the War George was a Railway Clerk at Sawbridgeworth Station and living in Sayesbury Road with his wife Daisy Ellen (nee Palmer). Married 24th June 1909 at Great St Mary's Church.
Enlisted at Hertford September 1914 in 1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment no 3162 (later 6th Beds 265865, from 22/5/1918). After enlistment, George's wife moved to 35 Burnham Road, St Albans to be near parts of her extended family.
Wartime Service
Landed in France 23rd January 1915.
Died of wounds 23rd May 1918 following Gas barrage at Fonquevillers on 11th May.
Additional Information
His wife remained in St Albans for many years after the war, his Mother stayed in Sawbridgeworth where she died in 1928.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes, Graham Parish, Jonty Wild
