HOWE, Arthur
No. 400720, Private, Arthur James Charles HOWE
Aged 21
1st Battalion, Essex Regiment
Killed in Action on Thursday 22nd November, 1917
Born in Balsham in Q4-1896 [Newmarket 3b:530], son of Arthur and Mary HOWE (née GUYMER)of 48 Nat Flatman Street, Newmarket. 1901 census...At Nat Flatman Street were Arthur [5] with his father Arthur [40] a groom, born Huntingdon, his mother Mary [40] born West Wratting his sisters Ethel [11] born Newmarket and Annie [9] born Balsham and brother John[2] born Newmarket and a lodger. 1911 census...At 48 Nat Flatman Street was the same family unit, Arthur junior being a paper deliverer.
He was married in St Martin's Church, Exning on 28th February-1917 to Ada Ethel CHALLICE (b.29-1-1897), they lived at Landwade. Ada later married Thomas AKERMAN of Oxford Street, Exning, in 1921. |
Their task was made more difficult by the fact that a tank, F22 "Flying Fox", had broken the already damaged bridge at Mesnieres, with both bridge and tank ending up in the river. Lack of co-ordination between tanks and infantry contributed to the operation failing, eight of the 1st Essex men were killed this day as the battalion were falling back to their start line. |
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