Four: Gunner E. H. Howard, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, later Acting Sergeant Major, Canadian Forestry Corps

1914-15 Star (6022 Gnr: E. H. Howard. R. Can: H. Art:); British War and Victory Medals (6022 A.W.O. Cl.1. E. H. Howard R.C.H.H.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (6022 Pte. -A.S. Mjr.- E. H. Howard. Can: Forestry C.) light contact marks, very fine (4) £140-£180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore.

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M.S.M. London Gazette 9 December 1919
‘In recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with the War’

Everett Haydon Howard was born in Elgin, Ontario, Canada in 1888. A Clerk by occupation, he attested for the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery at Valcartier, Quebec on 23 September 1914, embarking five days later in TSS Athenia for England. Whilst undergoing training on Salisbury Plain his disciplinary record was chequered. Embarking for France on 8 July 1915 he was admitted to hospital on several occasion due to bronchitis and neuralgia, and was returned to England in October 1916 before being transferred to the Canadian Forestry Corps on 9 January 1917. Appointed Acting Staff Sergeant with pay on 27 August 1917 his name was brought to the attention of Secretary for War for valuable services rendered on 13 March 1918. Appointed Superintending Clerk with pay, Headquarters, Canadian Forestry Corps, London, he was promoted Acting Regimental Sergeant Major on 15 April 1918, before returning to Canada due to a chest condition on 11 September 1919. Disembarking at Halifax he was demobilised on 12 November 1919 to reside at Craigmyle, Alberta.

Following war service Howard remained in Canada with his wife before returning to Southampton on 26 November 1924. The 1939 Register records him as a Retired Army Pensioner living in Southampton. Following the outbreak of the Second World War he again embarked with his wife for Canada on 9 July 1940 and he is shown in the 1945 List of Electors for Calgary West as a Civil Servant, and is believed to have served in charge of Calgary Post Office. Following the end of the Second World War he returned from Canada with his wife to Southampton where he died on 18 April 1971, aged 81.

Sold with copied service record and other research.