Military service
Service number:
560
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Birth:
King's Cove, Bonavista Bay,, Newfoundland & Labrador
Enlistment:
September 16, 1914
St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death:
July 1, 1916
Beaumont Hamel, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
D. 5.
Additional information
Only son of Captain Patrick and Johanna Howard, of St. John's, Newfoundland.
Digital gallery of Private James John Howard
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Photo of James John Howard
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Photo of James John Howard
In memory of the men would served in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during World War i and did not return home. Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me. -
Badge
The cap badge of James John Howard -
Medals
Medals awarded to James John Howard (from right to left): the Victory Medal, the British War Medal and the 1914/15 Star -
Memorial Medaillon
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Memorial Scroll
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Insignia
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Inscription on Beaumont-Hamel Memorial
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Royal Newfoundland Regiment Badge
In memory of the men would served in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during World War i and did not return home. Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me. -
Biography
In memory of the men would served in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during World War i and did not return home. Submitted for the project Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Private James John Howard
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 60 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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