Charles Reginald Howard

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Charles Reginald Howard was born in Tottenham, London, on 11 October 1875 the son of Robert Luke Howard and Henrietta Maria Howard (nee Fox). He lived and worked in various places in England in his early days and had qualified and served for a time as a surgeon at Guys Hospital, London. He later went to Zanzibar as a Government Bacteriologist and whilst there enlisted with the Dorset (Queen's Own) Yeomanry serving in the Boer War in South Africa where he was awarded the South Africa Medal with five bars. He married Hilda Margaret Moore in London on 27 February, 1906. At the outbreak of WW1 he enlisted with the Royal Army Medical Corps with the rank of Lieutenant and served in France and Flanders from 23 September 1914 in charge of the 1st Motor Red Cross Ambulance being Mentioned in Dispatches on two occasions. Following some bad health he returned to duty and was selected for service in German East Africa (Nyasaland) attached to the King's African Rifles. Whilst there he had been promoted to Captain (Acting Lieutenant Colonel). He was in action on 6 September 1918 when he was shot dying immediately. He was accorded full military honours and buried at Chinde, Mozambique. He was awarded the Victory and British War Medals as well as the 1914/15 Star along with an earlier OBE. This brief summary is given to denote the fact that a brass plate in his memory is in the Parish Church at Ashmore, Shaftesbury, Dorset, and is the only known association with the area.