Robert Arthur Howe

Forenames

Robert Arthur AWMM

Surname

Howe AWMM

Service number

WWI 38391 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

Australia AWMM

Date of birth

3 Apr 1885

Public - Bret - Other relative - 2 May 2024 - Military Personnel File

Place of birth

Eaglehawk, Victoria, Australia

Public - Bret - Other relative - 2 May 2024 - Victoria, Australia BDM Birth registration: Event: births Registration number 9490 / 1885 Family name: HOWE Given name(s)" Robert Arthur Place of event: EA GL, Australia Personal detail Mother's name: Helen Harriet Mother's family name at birth: EBBOTT Father's Name: Robert George"

Military Personnel File

Next of kin

Mrs E.H. Howe (mother), 12 Clyde Street, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 38391 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Miner/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Feb 1917-02 May 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 76 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Private AWMM 22nd Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Regiment, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

7 Nov 1918 AWMM Died of Disease, Cause of Death AWMM
Influenza AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
New Zealand Machine Gun Corps AWMM

Robert Howe was the son of Helen H. Howe, and the late Robert George Howe. Born in Victoria, Australia. Served in France.

Next of Kin: Mr C. G. Howe, Parnell, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

7 Nov 1918 AWMM
Age  33 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of Disease AWMM

Cemetery

Waikumete Cemetery, Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM Prot. Soldiers Area A, Row 1, Grave 4. AWMM

Memorial name

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R18050354
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/643116/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/643116
  Further Reference
• "Provisional List: Victims of the 1918 Flu Pandemic in New Zealand", Compiled by: Ancestry.com, Updated: 2-Oct-18
  http://web.archive.org/web/20220331095731/https://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Documents/Provisional-list-NZ-victims-of-1918-Flu-Pandemic-Ancestry.pdf
  Sources Used

References

• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  55: 5
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• "Provisional List: Victims of the 1918 Flu Pandemic in New Zealand", Compiled by: Ancestry.com, Updated: 2-Oct-18
• Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• HMNZT 76 - The moa : the journal of the Twenty Seconds on troopship "Aparima" (No. 76). Drew, H.T.B. (Henry Thomas Bertie), editor. Digby, H.W.L. (Henry William Lockyer), editor. -- At sea : Twenty-Second Reinforcements : [1917