HOWITT, Alec
| Service Number: | 3340 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 July 1915, Melbourne, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 7th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia, 1894 |
| Home Town: | Deniliquin, Deniliquin, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Meningitis, Egypt, 21 November 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Cairo War Memorial Cemetery Row D, Grave 200 Rev. W. McKean officiated |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Deniliquin War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3340, 7th Infantry Battalion, Melbourne, Vic. | |
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| 11 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 3340, 7th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 3340, 7th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Alec and Jessie May Howitt of 'Calime', Deniliquin, NSW
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Alec Howitt (Service No:3340) enlisted in the AIF on 28 July 1915, and was attached to 7th Infantry Battalion on 11 October 1915 when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne for Alexandria on board HMAT A71 Nestor. Private Howitt died in hospital in Heliopolis on 21 November 1915 (Measles and Meningitis). Younger brothers Gordon and Ken served in WWII.
Alec was born in Deniliquin, New South Wales in 1894, eldest of twelve children of Alexander (Alec) Howitt Snr (b1865 in Banffshire, Scotland) and Jessie May Preston (b1876 in Moama, New South Wales). Alec Snr was a Farm Servant in Scotland when he immigrated in 1889 on board the Jumna, and settled in the Deniliquin district. Alec Snr and Jessie married in 1894 in Deniliquin, and lived at Moira Station via Mathoura, where Alec Snr worked as a Boundary Rider. In 1901 Alec Snr took up the farming property Melrose at Calimo via Deniliquin, where he settled and raised his family and was a Farmer/Grazier.
Alec was a Farmer at Melrose in Calimo via Deniliquin when he enlisted in the Army in 1915.
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