Private Herbert Ernest Howard Service number 3709
Regiment Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry 1st/1st Bucks Bn
Date of birth 4th January 1890
Date of death 24th July 1916
Age at death 26 years
His Story
HERBERT EARNEST HOWARD: Born 1890 in Plaistow to Jesse and Eliza Howard, Herbert with his three siblings (two brothers and a sister) had, by 1911, moved from West Ham to Poplar, where he found employment as a Boxmaker. Herbert enlisted at New Court Middlesex, serving with the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. He died of wounds, aged 26 on 24 July 1916 at the Royal Hospital Netley, Southampton.