Auction Catalogue

4 & 5 March 2020

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Lot

№ 1197

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5 March 2020

Hammer Price:
£240

Memorial Plaque (2) (Herbert Wood Hanbury; Edward Fountain Howell) first in card envelope, traces of verdigris to both, therefore nearly very fine (2) £60-£80

Herbert Wood Hanbury was born in Leeds on 22 June 1876. An engineer by trade, he gained experience at Messrs. Neilson, Reid and Company's locomotive works, Glasgow, and subsequently acted as assistant to his father on inspection work for the Cape Government Railways. After a visit to the St. Louis Exhibition, he purchased a printing and publishing business, and under the name of Hanbury, Tomsett and Company carried it on for some 9 years at Kensal Rise, Middlesex. Following the outbreak of the Great War he was commissioned temporary Second Lieutenant in the Middlesex Regiment, and as Instructor of Musketry was promoted temporary Captain, and wrote a manual on ‘Aiming and Firing.’ He served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 15 November 1916. He is buried in Combles Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France.

Edward Fountain Howell was born in Great Walsingham, Norfolk, and attested for the Somerset Light Infantry at Cromer, Norfolk. He served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 3 May 1917. He is buried in Tigris Lane Cemetery, Wancourt, France.

Sold together with a postcard photograph of the recipient with his wife and child.