HOWELL, Lonzie Edward
| Service Number: | 882 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 May 1915, Claremont, Tasmania |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 26th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lilydale, Tasmania, Australia, 6 September 1897 |
| Home Town: | Lilydale, Launceston, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Lilydale State School, Tasmania, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in action, Belgium, 4 October 1917, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 11 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 882, Claremont, Tasmania | |
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| 29 Jun 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 882, 26th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Jun 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 882, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Brisbane | |
| 4 Oct 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 882, 26th Infantry Battalion, Broodseinde Ridge, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 882 awm_unit: 26th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-10-04 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Lonzie Howell was an original member of the 26th Battalion and served on Gallipoli from the 4 September 1915. He was just shy of his eighteenth birthday when he arrived at Anzac. He served in France through 1916 and was wounded on 6 March 1917, a gunshot wound to the forehead and face. He was evacuated to England and spent some four months there recuperating.
Lance Corporal Lonzie Edward Howell 26th Battalion AIF was killed in action on the 4 October 1917, aged 20. Howell was killed by a piece of shell shrapnel during the advance near Zonnebeke. One of the witnesses to his death said he bore a large scar on his forehead from his previous wound. His mates had to leave him as they were still advancing. His body was subsequently lost and he is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial at Ypres. Belgium.
His older brother, 3332 Private William Howell, 1st Australian Pioneers, died of wounds only three weeks later on 23 October 1917, aged 23.
They were the sons of Thomas and Rachel Mary Howell of Lilydale, Tasmania, though their father had passed away during 1910.
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