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Sapper WILLIAM SANDILANDS HOWDEN

Service Number: 9549
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Tunnelling Corps

1st Coy.

Date of Death

Died 11 November 1918

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN

S. III. DD. 20.

France

CH

Photographer: Steve Small

CH/PM Portland kerbs & chippings. CH 20cm in from head kerb.

Photographer: Steve Small

CH L/T

Photographer: Steve Small

HEMS K 130 CH/PM PORTLAND CH STANCLIFFE

Photographer: Stuart McConnachie

KEELING JH 160 PM

Photographer: Stuart McConnachie

RUTTER JL 10 CH/PM

Photographer: Stuart McConnachie

SMITH RA 30 PM

Photographer: Stuart McConnachie

SMITH RA 30 PM

Photographer: Stuart McConnachie

WHEELER G 140 CH PORTLAND CH STANCLIFFE

Photographer: Stuart McConnachie

WILLIAM JC 150 PM CH STANCLIFFE

Photographer: Stuart McConnachie

WILLIAM JC 150 PM CH STANCLIFFE

Photographer: Stuart McConnachie

CH Good condition

Photographer: Mark Hann

CH

Photographer: Sarah Hann

CH good

Photographer: Mark Hann

PM - spelling mistake on the 708 and the casualty database (listed with a single R when there should be a double RR). The lower part of the inscription is in poor condition but still legible.

Photographer: Mark Hann

PM - good inscription but severely encroached by tree growth

Photographer: Mark Hann

PM Good condition

Photographer: Mark Hann

Good

Photographer: Mark Hann

CH

Photographer: Sarah Hann

PM - very poorly presented - the casualty's name is on the side of a kerbed older grave which is suffering from tree debris and weeds There is no indication that this is a war grave.

Photographer: Mark Hann

Good

Photographer: Mark Hann

Private memorial headstone which has recently been cleaned (not known by whom) and the inscription is legible.

Photographer: Richard Millington

Headstone before cleaning

Photographer: Richard Millington

PM

Photographer: Alison Shaw

PM/CH

Photographer: Alison Shaw

Cleaned and weeded

Photographer: Alison Shaw

Inspected

Photographer: Alison Shaw

CH

Photographer: Alison Shaw

Cleared and weeded

Photographer: Alison Shaw

inspected

Photographer: Alison Shaw

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

Cleaned and weeded

Photographer: Alison Shaw

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

22.92.226

Photographer: Paul Stewart-Hammond

Cleaned and weeded.

Photographer: Alison Shaw

Cleaned and weeded

Photographer: Alison Shaw

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

26.83.115

Photographer: Paul Stewart-Hammond

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

24.109.207

Photographer: Paul Stewart-Hammond

Cleaned and weeded

Photographer: Alison Shaw

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

24.109.217

Photographer: Paul Stewart-Hammond

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

24.109.219

Photographer: Paul Stewart-Hammond

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

24.109.222

Photographer: Paul Stewart-Hammond

Cleaned and weeded

Photographer: Alison Shaw

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

21.99.193

Photographer: Paul Stewart-Hammond

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

24.109.209

Photographer: Paul Stewart-Hammond

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

24.109.221

Photographer: Paul Stewart-Hammond

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

24.109.208

Photographer: Paul Stewart-Hammond

Cleaned and weeded

Photographer: Alison Shaw

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

Cleaned and weeded.

Photographer: Alison Shaw

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

24.109.223

Photographer: Paul Stewart-Hammond

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

24.109.224

Photographer: Paul Stewart-Hammond

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

24.109.220

Photographer: Paul Stewart-Hammond

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

24.109.218

Photographer: Paul Stewart-Hammond

Leamington (Whitnash Road) Cemetery

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

25.94.64

Photographer: Paul Stewart-Hammond

HEADSTONE

Photographer: MR PAUL E TURSNER-UPCOTT

Cleaned and weeded Difficult to remove green mark

Photographer: Alison Shaw

cleared and cleaned

Photographer: Alison Shaw

Headstone

Photographer: Daniel Phelan

Headstone

Photographer: Jeanette Guslov

Up to date picture of headstone

Photographer: John Stretton

Napton on the Hill Church Cemetery, general view and headstones, captured May 2021. CWGC has full usage rights.

Photographer: Peter Anderson

Napton on the Hill Church Cemetery, general view and headstones, captured May 2021. CWGC has full usage rights.

Photographer: Peter Anderson

Good condition

Photographer: Ynyr Owen

Good condition

Photographer: Ynyr Owen

CH Portland on level turf

Photographer: Steve Small

New commemoration within plot

Photographer: Paul Colbourne

Headstone

Photographer: Nicola Wright

Headstone

Photographer: Nicola Wright

Portland, level turf

Photographer: Catharine Fleming

ADAMS BG 40 CH/PM

Photographer: Stuart McConnachie

AUSTIN K 60 CH/PM

Photographer: Stuart McConnachie

BAINES L 70 CH/PM

Photographer: Stuart McConnachie

CHADWICK W 110 CH/PM

Photographer: Stuart McConnachie

CHURCHLEY GH 30 CH/PM

Photographer: Stuart McConnachie

  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of John Hopkirk Howden and Annie Howden, of Pathhead, Loanhead, Midlothian, Scotland.
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
Seine-Maritime France
Number of casualties: 8685
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