Service Details
Name:
 HOWE
Given Name:
 JOHN
Initials:
 J
Service No:
 110086V
Rank:
 Sergeant
Other Casualties of this Rank
Regiment:
 Pretoria Regiment, S.A. Forces
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Former Regiment:
 formerly 6th Mounted Regiment
Date of Death:
 1944-06-27
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Date of Birth:
 1908-06-10
Age:
 36
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, by a anti-personnel mine, while on a recce, near Sarteano, Italy
Decorations:
 M M
Citations:
 LG Sup 7 December 1944 pg. 5614
Additional
Information:
Son of Heinrich Schwake and Clara Maria Matilda Howe (formally Schwake), of Rosebank, Cape Town. Born Johannesburg. A hotel manager at the Rosebank Hall Residential Hotel in Johannesburg. He was unmarried.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 BOLSENA WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 II. H. 19.

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