Name
Herbert (Bert) William Frederick Howes
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/04/1918
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
41893
King’s Royal Rifle Corps
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PERONNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
III. G. 9.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary's Church Memorial, Reed, St Mary's Church ROH, Reed
Pre War
Herbert William Frederick Howes was born in Hornsey, Middx in 1894, the son of Frederick and Annie Elizabeth Howes (nee Bysouth). He was one of five children but one died in infancy.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 73 Napier Road, Tottenham, Middlesex, where his father was working as a carpenter, but by 1911 was living with his grandparents, William and Esther Bysouth, on Mill Corner Farm, Reed, Herts and was an apprentice on the farm.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hitchin, Herts and initially served with the Royal Army Service Corps under reg. no. DM2/231252, later transferring to the 8th Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps.
Herbert was taken prisoner by the Germans and it was officially accepted that he died in Germany on 6 April 1918. At the end of the war his body was exhumed and re-buried in Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Additional Information
Frances E Ball, his sole legatee, received a war gratuity of £6 and pay owing of £8 15s 8d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Malcolm Lennox
