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RAMC profile of:

Ernest HOWARTH
[Service No: 365]

Ernest HOWARTH

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Place or Date of Birth:	Burnley, Lancs in August 1886

Service Number:	365

TF Number:

Rank:	a.Sjt

Unit:	2nd East Lancashire Divisional Field Ambulance

Attached To:	2/2nd East Lancs Field Ambulance

Enlistment Location:	Burnley, Lancs

Also Served:

Outcome:	Drowned

Date Died:	13/08/1915
Age Died:

Where Buried and/or Commemorated:	Turkey - Helles Memorial

Awards:

Gazette Reference:

Other Information:

Ernest had been employed by Messrs. Cudworth and Company, coach body builders. He entered the war in Egypt on 11th August 1915. He was onboard H.M. Transport Ship 'Royal Edward' when it was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-14. He was the husband of Mrs. Howarth of 3 Perth Street, Burnley, and the father of three children, all of whom were under the age of 4 years in September 1915.


Additional Information:	Date Added: Thursday 04 October, 2018

Ernest remembered on the Royal Edward panel on the Helles Memorial [Photographs courtesy of Chris Lu... (click here to read full text)

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