Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Henry Cecil Howard

Ancestor's date of birth: 1877

Ancestor's date of death: 10/02/1931

Cause of Death: Carbon Monoxide Poisononing self caused while metally deranged - from Coronors report

Service Number: 399

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: detail not provided

Unit: 2^nd NSW Mounted Rifles

Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: On enlistment

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service

Murray Page: 116

Contingent: Fifth New South Wales

Ship: Custodian or Maplemore, Date of Sailing: 17/03/1901

Memorial details: Detail not provided

Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Transvaal, SA 1901 and SA 1902 clasps.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: April 1901 - April 1902 in west then east Transvaal.

Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia: 4 June 1902.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Garth Bruce Howard, Toormina NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson

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