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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 932

(x) Army L.S. & G.C., E. VII.R. (2001 C. Sjt: I of M. C. Howard. Rifle Bde.), very fine

Charles Howard was born in 1872 at Hartley-Witney, Hampshire. He saw extensive service with the Rifle Brigade from 11 January 1892 and was a popular soldier. Page 237 of the 1912 Rifle Brigade Chronicle gives more detail:

'This year the Battalion suffers a great loss in Colour-Sergeant Instructor in Musketry C. Howard, who has gone to Cambridge University Officers' Training Corps as Sergeant Major. An excellent shot both individually and in teams, and an ideal Instructor, we shall greatly miss him.'

Howard was promoted to Company Sergeant-Major with No. 2 Officer Cadet Battalion, Pembroke College, Cambridge on 25 May 1915. He was discharged after 27 years and 301 days of service and would serve a further 21 years as a clerk for English China Clays Ltd, St. Austell, Cornwall, where he died in 1957; sold together with a large and appealing Cambridge University cap badge.


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