Private Alfred Howitt

Army Number : 12988

Battalion : 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Dunkirk, Nottingham. Son of Joseph and Emma Howitt, of 77, Montpellier Road, Old Lenton, Nottingham. He was a polisher prior to enlisting at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He went to Gallipoli 1st July 1915 and died,16th September 1915, in Malta from enteric fever, contracted whilst serving in Gallipoli.

Buried: Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta. Plot B. Row 9. Grave 1

Private Alfred Howitt is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Lenton War Memorial, Nottingham.