ROBERT ALFRED HOWELL
Born: 1897, Ipswich.
Baptised: 9th September 1898, at St. Mary Quay Church, Ipswich – family home at Lower Orwell Street, Ipswich.
Death presumed: 17th April 1918; age 21; KiA.
Residence: Lower Orwell Street, Ipswich.
Occupation: with Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, Orwell Works, Ipswich.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 44987
Regiment: Lincolnshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion.
Formerly 23275, Royal Sussex Regiment.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Memorial Reference:
Panel 35 to 37 & 162 to 162A.
West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium.
Brother to JOHN HENRY HOWELL and ERNEST EDWARD HOWELL.
CENSUS
1901 Ayslum Yard, Ipswich.
Robert was 3 years old and living with his parents and siblings.
John William Howell, 51, a Bricklayer’s Labourer, born Bury St. Edmund, Suffolk.
Charlotte Howell (nee Wright), 50, born Lakenham, Norfolk.
Charlotte Elizabeth Howell, 23, a Tailoress, born Norwich.
Walter George Howell, 20, a Factory Packer, born Norwich.
Susan Howell, 14, a Tailoress, born Ipswich.
Ernest Edward Howell, 11, born Ipswich.
Alice Maud Howell, 9, born Ipswich.
Percy Herbert Howell, 7, born Ipswich.
1 boarder.
1911 4, Ayslum Yard, Lower Orwell Street, Ipswich.
Robert was 13 years old and living with his parents and siblings.
John, 63.
Charlotte, 62.
Susan, 24, a Tailoress.
Percy, 17, a Foundry Labourer.
Robert’s father, John William Howell, died on the 16th June 1913, at Ipswich and was buried at Section EE, Ipswich Old Cemetery.
Robert’s mother, Charlotte Howell, died on the 29th July 1913, at St. Mary Quay, Ipswich and was buried on the 1st August at Section EE, Ipswich Old Cemetery.
Soldiers’ Effects to Charlotte E. Chambers – sister, and Margaret Green.
Robert is also remembered on the Orwell Works Memorial, Ransomes Sims & Jefferies, and at Holy Trinity Church, Ipswich.
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