ROBERT ALFRED HOWELL
Born: 1897, Ipswich.
Death presumed: 17th April 1918; age 21; KiA.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 44987
Regiment: Lincolnshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion.
Formerly 23275, Royal Sussex Regiment.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Memorial Reference:
Panel 35 to 37 & 162 to 162A.
West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium.
Brother to JOHN HENRY HOWELL and ERNEST EDWARD HOWELL.
CENSUS
1901 Ayslum Yard, Ipswich.
Robert was 3 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
John William Howell, 51, a Bricklayer’s Labourer, born Bury St. Edmund, Suffolk.
Charlotte Howell (nee Wright), 50, born Lakenham, Norfolk.
Charlotte Elizabeth Howell, 23, a Tailoress, born Norwich.
Walter George Howell, 20, a Factory Packer, born Norwich.
Susan Howell, 14, a Tailoress, born Ipswich.
Ernest Edward Howell, 11, born Ipswich.
Alice Maud Howell, 9, born Ipswich.
Percy Herbert Howell, 7, born Ipswich.
1 boarder.
1911 4, Ayslum Yard, Lower Orwell Street, Ipswich.
Robert was 13 years and living with his parents his parents & siblings.
John, 63.
Charlotte, 62.
Susan, 24, a Tailoress.
Percy, 17, a Foundry Labourer.
Robert’s parents both died in 1913, Ipswich.
Soldiers’ Effects to Charlotte E. Chambers – sister, and Margaret Green.
Robert is also remembered on the Orwell Works Memorial, Ransomes Sims & Jefferies, and at Holy Trinity Church, Ipswich.
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