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Brigadier General PHILIP HOWELL

Regiment & Unit/Ship

General Staff

II Corps

Date of Death

Died 07 October 1916

Age 37 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY

I. B. 37.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Companion of St. Michael and St. George, 6 times Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Lt. Col. Horace Howell, Punjab Frontier Force, and Ella Howell; husband of R. N. Howell, of 5, Carlyle Square, Chelsea, London. From 1900 to 1913 he was in the Queen's Own Corps of Guides.
  • Personal Inscription FELLOWSHIP IS HEAVEN AND THE LACK OF FELLOWSHIP IS HELL
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Buried or commemorated at

VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1220
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