ERNEST GEORGE HOWLETT
Born: 20th November 1887, at 2, William Street, Ipswich.
Died: 16th August 1916; age 29; KiA.
Residence: 3, Harmony Square, Ipswich.
Occupation: with Ransomes Sims & Jefferies, Orwell Works, Ipswich.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Date of Entry Therein: 30th May 1915 – France.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 9350
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 2nd Battalion.
Formerly 9350, of the Suffolk Regiment, 7th Battalion.
Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1915 Star.
Memorial Reference:
Pier & Face 1C & 2A.
Somme,
France.
Relatives Notified & Address: Husband of Lily Rosette Howlett, of The Bungalow, Recreation Ground, Parkeston, Harwich.
CENSUS
1891 11, Harmony Square, Ipswich.
Ernest was 3 years old and living with his widowed paternal grandmother & uncles.
Bathsheba Howlett (nee Lawrence), 65, born Mendlesham, Suffolk.
John Luke Howlett, 25, a Boot Finisher, born Ipswich.
George Henry Howlett, 22, a Boot Finisher, born Ipswich.
Arthur Howlett, 17, a Boot Finisher, born Ipswich – died 1891, Ipswich.
In 1891, Ernest’s widowed mother was a lodger next door at 9, Harmony Square, the home of 64 year old, Maria Flory.
Amy Howlett (nee Groom), 34, a Domestic Servant, born Blakenham, Suffolk.
1901 11, Harmony Square, Ipswich.
Ernest was 13 years old and living with his grandmother.
Bathsheba, 74, a Laundress – own account.
1911 8, Harmony Square, Ipswich.
Ernest was 23 years old, a Plough Fitter – Plough Works. He was living with his paternal uncle & aunt and cousins.
George Henry Howlett, 42, a Jobbing Gardener – own account, born Ipswich.
Alice Louise Howlett (nee Kersey), 38, born Ipswich.
Stanley George Howlett, 14, employed in an Engineers & Iron Foundry, born Ipswich.
Claude Charles Howlett, 9, born Ipswich.
Arthur Alfred Howlett, 9, born Ipswich.
Ernest’s father was William Howlett, born 1859, Mendlesham, Suffolk. William Howlett died on the 23rd January 1887, at The Tuns Inn, Pettistree, Suffolk. He was a Blacksmith.
Ernest’s paternal grandmother, Bathsheba Howlett, died in 1909 at her home of 11, Harmony Square, St. Michael’s, Ipswich.
In 1911, Ipswich, Ernest married Lily Rosette Howlett Kersey, born June 1890, at 17, Blanche Street, St. Margaret’s, Ipswich – illegitimate daughter of Alice Louise Howlett Kersey, who later married Ernest’s paternal uncle George Henry Finbow Howlett, a factory porter, in 1896, of 8, Harmony Square, Ipswich.
Lily and Ernest had two daughters:
Dora May Howlett, born May 1912, at 17, Blanche Street, Ipswich.
Gladys Maria Howlett, born November 1914, Ipswich.
Soldiers’ Effects to Lily R. Howlett – widow.
Ernest is also remembered on the Orwell Works Memorial Ransomes Sims & Jefferies, Ipswich.
Suffolk Regiment, 2nd Battalion:
Taking two weeks’ rest behind the line in the Somme at Mericourt, the 2nd Battalion, the Suffolk Regiment moved up near Maltz Farm, south west to Trones Wood. The trenches were packed with troops for several days in preparation for the attack planned on the 16th August. The French 418th Regiment, in co-operation with the British, was to attack at 5.30 p.m. A rolling barrage commenced with the Battalions following the trail of destruction. On the left, heavy machine gun fire checked the attack, leading to a standstill, but on the right, 250 yards were taken of the Cochrane Alley, where several Germans were captured. The Battalion returned to the original positions later that night.
Suffolk Regiment Battalion movement
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