Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

Five: Drummer D. W. Howell, Norfolk Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (4434 Drmr., Norfolk Regt.); 1914 Star, with clasp (4434 Dmr., Norf. R.); British War and Victory Medals (4434 Pte., Norf. R.); Army L.S.& G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (4434 Dmr., Norf. Regt.) contact marks, good fine and better (5) £180-220

Daniel William Howell was born in Lakenham, near Norwich. A labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the 3rd Militia battalion Norfolk Regiment in 1886, aged 13 years and 10 months. He re-engaged in 1892 and attested for regular service in the Norfolk Regiment in 1895. With the outbreak of the Great War, still with the Norfolk Regiment he entered the France / Flanders theatre of war on 22 August 1914. He received a gunshot wound to the left leg at the battle of Ypres on 23 April 1915. Howell was transferred to the Middlesex Regiment in April 1917 and thence the Labour Corps in May the same year and was with the R.F.C. Cadet Wing during April-November 1917. He was discharged from the Labour Corps on 15 March 1918. Post war he attested for the Suffolk Yeomanry in August 1921, transferring to the 4th Suffolk Regiment in November 1921. Howell, a Drummer for most of his military service was clasified as a Bandsman in 1922. He died at Ipswich on 8 December 1923. Sold with a quantity of service papers. Clasps confirmed.