No.5825504, Private, William Frank HOWE
Aged 26
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William Frank Howe, born in 1913 in Kirtling (Newmarket Q4-1913 3B:785), baptised in 1914 in Kirtling, son of Frederick and Eliza Rebecca HOWE
(née CLARKE). The confusion is CWGC give his parents as Mr & Mrs T Howe (transcription error perhaps? since a likely T.Howe has not been found) In the 1939 register, at the High Street, Kirtling weré his father Frederick [16-4-1876] farm labourer; mother Eliza R [23-1-1878]; brothers Albert B [28-1-1900] stockman on farm and Kenneth L [20-8-1921] butcher's assistant; an Ivy Elsie THORPE [15-12-1901] - married and Vera Jean HINTON, later RUDGE [11-12-1930] scholar. There are two closed records. |
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29th May 1940, Dunkirk: 33,558 British troops were evacuated from Dunkirk harbour and 13,752 from the beaches. The 1st Suffolks lost 22, 13 are buried in Belgium and 9 are named on the Memorial in Dunkirk (George Haggar from Newmarket being another local man named on the Memorial). |
photo; Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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