The story
Name: H G HOW
Rank: Petty Officer Air Fitter (Ordnance Mechanic 5th Class)
Official number: C/MX 703481
Role: -
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: -
Ship/station: H.M.S. Lanka (Lost in S.S. Khedive Ismail)
Date of death: 1944-02-12
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: At sea, Indian Ocean
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL - Kent
Commemoration details: Panel 78, Column 22
Family details: Son of Frederick and Alice How; husband of Mildred Francis How, of Cliffe-at-Hoo, Kent
Rank: Petty Officer Air Fitter (Ordnance Mechanic 5th Class)
Official number: C/MX 703481
Role: -
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: -
Ship/station: H.M.S. Lanka (Lost in S.S. Khedive Ismail)
Date of death: 1944-02-12
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: At sea, Indian Ocean
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL - Kent
Commemoration details: Panel 78, Column 22
Family details: Son of Frederick and Alice How; husband of Mildred Francis How, of Cliffe-at-Hoo, Kent
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