Edwin Claude HOWELL

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Service Number:	419
Enlisted:	14 February 1916, Claremont, Tas.
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	40th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Austins Ferry, Tasmania, Australia, 17 June 1886
Home Town:	Austins Ferry, Glenorchy, Tasmania
Schooling:	Claremont State School, Hobart, Tasmania
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Broodseinde Ridge, Belgium, 4 October 1917, aged 31 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, (Panel 25), Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)

14 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 419, 40th Infantry Battalion, Claremont, Tas.
1 Jul 1916:	Involvement Private, 419, 40th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: ''
1 Jul 1916:	Embarked Private, 419, 40th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Hobart
7 Jun 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 419, 40th Infantry Battalion, Battle of Messines
4 Oct 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 419, 40th Infantry Battalion, Broodseinde Ridge

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