Private Howe
Wednesday 18th August: It was with peculiar grief that we heard this morning that Private Percy Howe had been killed in the Dardanelles on August 16th. Percy Howe was 22 years of age, son of Mr and Mrs A. Howe of 38 Margetts Road, Kempston, of the sunniest disposition and a favourite everywhere. In the great sympathy which is felt for the bereaved family, our staff deeply share. He was a great lover of a field sports, a keen follower of Kempston football teams and a popular member of the Beds Times Cricket Club”.
“He came to us in January 1911 and was employed in our machine-room and left in March 1914 to enter the Queen’s Engineering Works. His cousin, Private F. Gillett, Grenadier Guards, has died from wounds and another cousin, Private Boyce, 1st/5th Bedfords, is severely wounded(1)
Source: Bedfordshire Times 10th September 1915
(1) F W Gillett, 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, son of William and Emily of 2 Church Walk, died at home on 21st May 1915 and is buried in Kempston Cemetery. Private Boyce seems to have survived the war.
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