Hubert Edward Maxwell HOWELL

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HOWELL, Hubert Edward Maxwell

Service Number:	400304
Enlisted:	18 August 1940
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	No. 4 Initial Training School Victor Harbor
Born:	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 22 January 1914
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Natural causes, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23 May 1996, aged 82 years
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
Memorials:

18 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force
18 Aug 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 400304
15 May 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, No. 4 Initial Training School Victor Harbor
15 May 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 400304
Date unknown:	Involvement Flying Officer, 400304

Biography contributed by David Barlow

Hubert Edward (Ted) Howell died on the 23rd of May 1996 - Death Notice in The Age (Melbourne)

In October 1942 he was on board RAF Wellington bomber HX775 which crash-landed on Las Palmas Island in the Canary Islands with all of the crew interned by Spanish authorities until March 1943 - the RAAF crewmen were:

Sergeant Hubert Edward Maxwell Howell 400304 - discharged in May 1945 with the rank of Flying Officer

Sergeant Donald Drew Gardner 416257 - discharged in March 1945 with the rank of Flying Officer

Sergeant John Hudson Wilkinson 400444 - KIA in August 1944 over Zielkeim, East Prussia (Germany) in 83 Squadron RAF Lancaster PB249 (rank: Flight Lieutenant)

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