Service Number
4th/2505
Rank
Private
Firstname
Joseph
Lastname
Howard
Battalion
1/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
Notes

Attested 2 September 1914 4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment at Londesborough Street Barracks Hull – Medal Index Card Entered Boulogne France 17 April 1915 with 1/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment – Effects to Widow and sole legatee Olive G – Obit and Photo De Ruvignys – Commemorated East Yorkshire Regiment War Memorial Beverley Minster East Yorkshire – Commemorated Harrow Street Hessle Road Hull Roll of Honour as Killed
WAR DIARY
29 May 1915
1030pm Machine Gun section under 2nd Lieutenant Redfern arrived with 2 light Vickers guns, from Transport Lines in Vlamertinghe.
1130pm 2nd Cavalry Division relieved by 3rd Cavalry Division (6th and 8th Brigades). Battalion put under the orders of GOC 8th Cavalry Brigade. Casualties 2 wounded.

Age
31
Birthplace
Hull
Enlisted
Hull
Residence
Hull
How Died
Killed in Action
Memorial
Commemorated on panel 21 and 31 the Menin Gate Ypres Memorial Ieper Belgium.
Next of Kin
Son of William Henry and Emily Lavinia Howard, of 1, Newport Grove, Harrow Street, Hessle Road - Hull; husband of Olive Gertrude Harrison (formerly Howard), of 27, Ayscough St., West Marsh, Grimsby.
Date Died
29 May 1915