247068 Capt. Claude Arthur Howe British Army 1/5th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (d.30th November 1917) Captain and Adjutant Claude Arthur Howe served with 5th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. He was born 17th October 1896 in Kent, son of Frank and Annie Howe. He attended St. Albans Grammar School, Bedford Modern School and then onto Leeds University.
He enlisted on 1st of January 1916 with the London Regiment (Artists Rifles), gazetted to Second Lieutenant in July 1916 with The 4th (Denbighshire) Battalion (Territorial) Royal Welsh Fusiliers and in October the same year was attached to 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. He was reported missing and wounded at Gloucester Road, Epehy on 30 November 1917 and then assumed killed in action on that date. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, France.
His commanding officer wrote "He was a very promising young officer and a great favourite of mine... and was a most popular officer."
A pupil of Bedford Modern School 1912-13, he is commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923.
His elder brother, Sapper C. A. Howe served with 483rd Field Coy. Royal Engineers and was killed in action on 13 March 1917. Tragically his parents losing both sons to the War.
Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
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