Alfred Howitt
Service Number
12988
Military Unit
9th Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment)
Date of birth
Unknown
Date of Death
16 Sep 1915 (21 Years Old)
Place of Birth
Dunkirk Nottingham
Employment, Education or Hobbies
He was a polisher.
- Family History
- Military History
- Extra Information
- Photographs
Family History
He was the son of Joseph and Emma Howitt and the brother of Ernest and Gertrude Howitt. In 1911 they lived at 77 Montpelier Road Old Lenton Nottingham.
Military History
Alfred Howitt served at Gallipoli with the battalion. Illness was a bigger killer than the enemy and he contracted enteric fever. He was moved to a hospital on Malta where he died.
Extra Information
Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta. Nottingham Evening Post obituary (abridged) 29 September 1915. 'HOWITT died of enteric fever, 16 September, at Malta, Private Alfred Howitt, 9th Sherwood Foresters, son of Joseph and (-) Alice Howitt of Dunkirk.'
