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Pte 43406 Edgar Frederick Howard

Started by Tim Bell, January 09, 2020, 06:24:19 PM

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Tim Bell

Enlisted 179 Bgd  RFA L34027 18/6/1915. Deserted Witley Camp 27/11/1915. Enlisted G/11602 Middx 4/12/1915. Detained 17/1-26/2/1916. Hosp 3 days scabies and 1o days tonsillitis from 27/5/1916. 5th Middx. Posted BEF 1st Middx 30/6/1916. Attached early July and Transfer 17th Manch 1/9/1916. Field Court Martial insubordinate language 27/9/1916. Remitted sentence 22/10/1916.  Home Depot 17/1/1917.  Discharged Preston unfit with 100% disability from Dementia Praecox due to service on 15/2/1918. Suggested treatment as asylum.
Born Chelsea 1892. 1 Corunna Place, Stewarts Road, Battersea. Boilermaker. Son of Fredk Perry * Sarah Howard.
Edgar died from disease on 20/1/1919.  Registered Epsom Q1 1919 2a/65.  Probably died in Asylum in Epsom. Grave unknown.
While dementia praecox was seen as a disease, I'm cautious to apply for a DC, as other disease are more likely to have killed Edgar in an asylum.
but review early for a 17th Bttn man who fought at Guillemont and Flers with my Grandfather
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Tim Bell

Edgar Howard died in Long Grove Asylum, Epsom, to which he had transferred from Middlesex War Hosp, Napsbury.  His cause of death was TB, which he has contracted 2 months prior and was not related.
The DC finalises the case, other than Edgar's burial.  Remembered here.
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