| Surname: | Howard |
| Initials: | E |
| Rank: | Corporal |
| Army Number: | 7537759 |
| Notes: | CMP. Formerly Royal Army Medical Corps, transferred to CMP. POW Stalag VIIIC, Konin Zaganski, Poland, POW No. 118117. 14/43/46 to discharge. Casualty List 1579/31, 1 Airborne Div Pro Coy, missing believed POW, 25/9/1944. Casualty List 1605/36, 1 Airborne Div Pro Coy, previously reported missing believed POW now reported POW in German hands. Casualty List 1743/32, POW, Previously reported POW in German hands (Germany) now not POW,1 Airborne Div Pro Coy, previous list 1505, Western Europe. Captured Arnhem, Div HQ. He was shot in the jaw when marching in a POW column when a German opened fire on them killing and wounding many men. A German officer shot the other German who had opened fire. He is a Sergeant in the photograph taken at Strubton Hall prior to Arnhem. 23/5/1946 to discharge. 26/8/48 He was awarded the 1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Italy Star, France & Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal. Address:- 6 Cambridge Road, Leytonstone, London E 11. Ernest Howard. |
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| Imprisonment: | Stalag VIII C POLAND 🇵🇱 |