John Robert HOWES

HOWES, John Robert

Service Number: 593
Enlisted: 28 October 1914, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank: Corporal
Last Unit: 1st ANZAC Signals Troop
Born: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1889
Home Town: Brunswick East, Moreland, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, October 1942, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
Church of England, Compartment D, Section 2, Grave 33. Interred 6 October 1942
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World War 1 Service

28 Oct 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 593, 3rd Light Horse Brigade Signal Troop, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
2 Feb 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 593, 1st ANZAC Signals Troop , Embarked HT Chilka at Melbourne, Victoria
4 Apr 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 1st ANZAC Signals Troop
9 May 1917: Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 1st ANZAC Signals Troop
28 Feb 1918: Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 593, 1st ANZAC Signals Troop , Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit due to neurasthenia
Date unknown: Involvement Sapper, 593, 3rd Light Horse Brigade Signal Troop, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: '' embarkation_ship: '' embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
Date unknown: Embarked Sapper, 593, 3rd Light Horse Brigade Signal Troop

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of John Stewart Howes and Margaret Howes nee Love of Evans Street, East Brunswick, Victoria

Commenced return to Australia on 12 November 1917 from Suez aboard HT Wiltshire disembarking on 17 December 1917

Medals: 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

In 1941 John was living in Katoomba, NSW