Edwin John HOWARTH

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HOWARTH, Edwin John

Service Number:	3242
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	7th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Not yet discovered
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Gunnedah & District Great War Honour Roll A-K

World War 1 Service

10 May 1917:	Involvement Private, 3242, 7th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Boorara embarkation_ship_number: A42 public_note: ''
10 May 1917:	Embarked Private, 3242, 7th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Boorara, Melbourne

Edwin Howarth

Edwin John Howarth was a 21-year-old farmer on the family property Coocoo- boonah, near Gunnedah, when he signed enlistment papers in January 1917. His father Herbert was named as his next- of kin. With a strong rural background, he was placed in the 2nd Light Horse, which served in the desert campaign in Egypt. Palestine and the Sinai. He escaped harm in 15 months' service in the Light Horse as a driver but was ill on periodic occa- sions, mostly pleurisy. After hospitalisa- tion for pleurisy at the end of the war, he came home on the Euripedes in March 1919. = Edwin Howarth.

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