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Herbert Howard

Herbert Howard
Rank: 
Private
Regimental number: 
55630
Unit at enlistment: 
19th Battalion
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
Yes
Cemetery: 
Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario
Birth country: 
England
Birth county: 
Norfolk
Birth city: 
Great Yarmouth
Address at enlistment: 
13 Park Avenue, Brantford, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
82 King Street, Great Yarmouth, England
Trade or calling: 
Butcher
Religious denominations: 
Church of England
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
35
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Letters and documents

BX April 24, 1916

Invalided Hero Back Home Now – Pte. Hebert Howard Affected by Rheumatism and by Shells

Another member of the 19th Battalion has been invalided home in the person of Pte. Herbert Howard. Pte. Howard came into Brantford on the 7.32 G.T.R. train from Toronto last evening and is now stopping at 124 Waterloo Street. When he enlisted he was living at 13 Park Avenue.

Although Pte. Howard was in the trenches with the 19th Battalion, he was not wounded. His hearing has affected by the shells and he was laid up by rheumatism. Prior to returning he spent about four months in English hospitals. He had several very narrow escapes, bullets going through his hat.

Pte. Howard took part in the burial service for the O’Neill brothers, Lowes and Stephenson, four Brantford boys who were killed by one shell last November.

At the station last evening Pte. Howard was met by Ald. John S. Dowling, chairman of the Soldiers’ Aid Commission, who took him to 124 Waterloo Street in his automobile. Pte. Howard has no relatives in Canada.

He is a butcher by trade and unmarried. Prior to going overseas with the Second Contingent he was for three months a member of the 38th D.R.C. and also connected with the 4th Norfolks for a number of years.

BX August 11, 1954

Herbert Howard

The death occurred in the Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto on Tuesday of Herbert Howard, husband of Agnes Magrath, 34 Park Avenue east, in his 79th year.  He was born in Great Yarmouth, England, coming to Canada 50 years ago, for the past 35 years he has been a resident of Brantford.  Mr. Howard was an employee of the former Waterous Limited and a member of the 25 Year Club there.  He retired about eight years ago.  He served overseas in the First World War, going overseas with the original 19th Battalion.  He was a member of St. Jude’s Anglican Church.  Surviving besides his widow are three sons, Claude and Leonard Howard, Cecil Magrath, all of this city, one daughter, Mrs. Clarence (Agnes) Pursley, Waterford.  Mr. Howard is resting at the Hill and Robinson Funeral Home until Friday for service in chapel at 2 p.m.  Interment in the Soldiers’ Plot, Mount Hope Cemetery.

BX August 14, 1954

Herbert Howard

Many friends and relatives attended the funeral service for Herbert Howard, conducted Friday afternoon at the Hill and Robinson Funeral Chapel, with Rev. T.H. Inns officiating.  Beautiful floral tributes were indicative of esteem and sympathy.  The pallbearers, all members of the Canadian Legion, were D. Monkman, J. Turner, G. Mears, A. Wright, W.H. Symington, T. Newitt and E.R. Edwards.  Mr. Edwards was in charge of the Legionnaires.  Interment was in the Soldiers’ Plot in Mount Hope Cemetery.

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