Identity
Person No.
3969
Service No.
68102
Last Name
First Name
Frederick Howard
Initials
F H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
29
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Attacked by carrier-borne aircraft from a Japanese force of three battleships and five carriers which had entered the Bay of Bengal a week before. Around seventy bombers were sent to dispatch the Hermes which sank within ten minutes
Military Service
Branch
Navy
Rank
Engine Room Artificer 4th Class
Regiment
Unknown
Corps
Unit
Defence Force
UDF 24,808
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Coordinates
Notes
Son of Alfred Howard and Jessie Clayton, of Durban, Natal, South Africa; husband of Beryl Wilfred Freda Clayton, of Durban.
Citations
Unknown
External References
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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samilhistory.com
open source ↗
samilhistory.com Remembrance / Peter Dickens SAN WW2 honour roll
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