HOWARD, Cecil Edwin
| Service Number: | 4562 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 October 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | London, England, United Kingdom, 1895 |
| Home Town: | Gerringong, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | All Hallows Church School at Tottenham, London, England |
| Occupation: | Painter |
| Died: | Gunshot wounds to right foot & amputation of left leg. , Manor Court Hospital, Folkestone, Kent, England , 2 October 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, Kent, England Plot number P. 443. and has a Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4562, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 15 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 4562, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Osterley embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 15 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 4562, 2nd Infantry Battalion, RMS Osterley, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Peter Rankin
He enlisted under the alias of Cecil Paling.
Biography contributed by Cathy Sedgwick
The summary below was completed by Cathy Sedgwick (OAM) – Facebook “WW1 Australian War Graves in England/UK/Scotland/Ireland”
Cecil Edwin Howard was born at Stoke Newington, London, England according to information supplied by his mother for the Roll of Honour. His Attestation Papers record that he was born at Tottenham, London. His birth was registered in June quarter, 1895 in the district of Hackney, London, England. His parents were William Brumby Howard & Nancy Sarah Howard (nee Schrier).
According to information supplied by his mother for the Roll of Honour, Cecil Edwin Howard came to Australia when he was 18 years old. A “Cecil E. Howard” was listed as a passenger on the Marathon which had departed from the port of London, England & arrived in Sydney, NSW on 25th June, 1914.
William Brumby Howard, father of Cecil Howard, died on 5th April, 1915.
On 6th October, 1915 Cecil Edwin Howard enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) under the name of “Cecil Paling” & stated he was a 20 year old, single, Painter.
Private Cecil “Paling”, Service number 4562, embarked from Sydney, NSW on RMS Osterley on 15th January, 1916 with the 2nd Infantry Battalion, 14th Reinforcements.
He was absent from Tattoo Roll Call at Aerodrome on 26th February, 1916 & was awarded 3 days Confined to Barracks.
On 27th March, 1916 Private “Paling” proceeded to join the B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force) from Alexandria on Saxonia. He disembarked at Marseilles, France on 3rd April, 1916.
Private “Paling” was sent to Hospital on 7th April, 1916 from 1st Australian Divisional Base Depot at Etaples, France. He was admitted to Isolation Hospital on 8th April, 1916 with Enteric & placed on the Seriously Ill List on 9th April, 1916. Pte “Paling” was reported as progressing satisfactorily with Cerebro Spinal Fever on 16th April, 1916. He was taken off the Seriously Ill List on 24th April, 1916.
He was transferred to 26th General Hospital on 5th May, 1916 & discharged to Base Depot at Etaples on 16th June, 1916. Private “Paling” was marched out from 1st A.D.B.D. (Australian Divisional Base Depot) at Etaples on 28th July, 1916 to join his Unit.
Private Cecil “Paling” was wounded in action on 12th September, 1916 in the field in Belgium. He was taken to No. 17 Casualty Clearing Station with gunshot wounds to thigh & knee & the transferred on 13th September, 1916 to No. 13 General Hospital at Boulogne, France. Private “Paling” had his femur amputated & embarked from Boulogne, France on Hospital Ship St Patrick for England on 27th September, 1916 with gunshot wounds to thigh & left knee.
On 28th September, 1916 Private “Paling” was admitted to Manor Court Hospital, Folkestone, Kent, England with Gunshot wounds to right foot & amputation of left leg.
Private Cecil “Paling” died at 3 pm on 2nd October, 1916 in Manor Court Hospital, Folkestone, Kent, England from wounds received in action – Gunshot wounds to right foot & amputation of left leg. (Some forms in the Service Record file of Private “Paling” stated he died of wounds on 28th September, 1916.)
Administrative Headquarters, Westminster London, advised Base Records, Department of Defence, Melbourne, Australia on 14th June, 1919 that “Information has been received in this Office from Mrs N. S. Howard, 7 Pretoria Road, White Hart Lane, Tottenham, London, England, which shows the correct name of the above-mentioned deceased solider as HOWARD Cecil Edwin, and that she his mother, is next of kin.”
He was buried in Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, Folkestone, Kent, England. His Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone is engraved with “1562 Private C. E. Howard”
(The above is a summary of my research. The full research can be found by following the link below)
https://ww1austburialsuk.weebly.com/shorncliffe.html
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