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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 24 th 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.

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 24^th 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.