In Memory Of
HOWE, JOHN
Service Details
Age:
36
Date of Birth:
1908-06-10
Service No:
110086V
Rank:
Sergeant
Regiment:
Pretoria Regiment, S.A. Forces
Former Regiment:
formerly 6th Mounted Regiment
Date of Death:
1944-06-27
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, by a anti-personnel mine, while on a recce, near Sarteano, Italy
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
II. H. 19.
Cemetery:
BOLSENA WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Italy
Additional Information
Decorations:
M M
Citations:
LG Sup 7 December 1944 pg. 5614
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.
