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Corporal CECIL JOHN HOWITT

Service Number: 265962
Regiment & Unit/Ship

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

2nd/7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 May 1918

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GOMMECOURT BRITISH CEMETERY NO.2, HEBUTERNE

IV. H. 21/22.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 185th T.M. Bty.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Thomas and Charlotte Eleanor Emma Howitt, of Stoke, Lincs; husband of Hetty Howitt, of Elm St., Skelmanthorpe, Huddersfield.
  • Personal Inscription THEM ALSO WHICH SLEEP IN JESUS WILL GOD BRING WITH HIM I. THESS. CH.4
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