George Howes

Abt 1888 - 1917  (~ 29 years)

• Name	George Howes  [1]
  Born	Abt 1888
  	from age at death
  Gender	Male
  Service	1917  [1, 2]
  	Private, 9 Bn, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
  Service No.	1917  [1, 2]
  	14301
  Death	27 Dec 1917  [3]
  Died	27 Dec 1917	War Hospital, Norwich, Norfolk   [1, 2]
  	Age: 29y
  	Cause: Died of wounds
  	"War Hospital" from deceased soldiers' effects registers,
  		George Howes Will 1
  		George Howes Will 2
  		George Howes Will 3
  		Norwich War Hospital
  Burial	Abt Jan 1918	Norwich Cemetery, Norwich, Norfolk   [2]
  	plot 26.245
  Buried	Abt Jan 1918	Earlham Cemetery, Norwich, Norfolk   [3]
  		George Howes HS
  Death	Abt Feb 1918	Blofield RD, Norfolk   [2]
  	Age: 29y
  Name	G Howes  [3]
  Name	Gordon Howes  [4]
  Notes	CWGC record says his name was Gordon. Ancestry says his birthplace was Norwich (but no obvious George born in Norwich at that time. From the record of George's effects at Ancestry.com, we can see he left his effects to Dorothy May Flowers of Lenwade (also known as Great Witchingham) - was she his daughter? Her birth date was (per those same records, 1 Jun 1918, after his death) A Dorothy M B Flowers birth was registered in 1946 in Fakenham but backdated to 1908 in Faversham? A Dorothy M B Flowers died Q1 1987 in Norwich with birth date 1 jun 1908. The 1908 record is not borne out by the new online GRO index of births, by the way! I found Dorothy M Flowers in the 1939 Register as a Staff Nurse at a hospital in Mundesley, Norfolk. So nothing to learn there. George's main records appear to have been among those burned. As you can see, nothing quite ties up! The man's name is different. His daughter's birth place may have been in Norfolk or may have been in Kent (I suspect Norfolk). She was definitely born in 1 Jun probably in 1908 but why not properly in the records?!
  Person ID	I109027	ONS
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2017

  
  

• Event Map		Died - Age: 29y - 27 Dec 1917 - War Hospital, Norwich, Norfolk Burial - Abt Jan 1918 - Norwich Cemetery, Norwich, Norfolk Buried - Abt Jan 1918 - Earlham Cemetery, Norwich, Norfolk Death - Age: 29y - Abt Feb 1918 - Blofield RD, Norfolk  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S148] Ancestry.com Military Records, www,ancestry.com. [S611] Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, www.cwgc.org. [S275] Gravestone. [S611] Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.