Death Plaque : Officer 1/4th Denbighshire Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Named to Captain John Brereton Howard, born at Brereton Hall, Cheshire.
The son of a wealthy industrialist, commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in 1/4th Denbighshire (Territorial) Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
France November 1914, later promoted to Captain.
Killed in action at Avely wood on the 6th April 1918 during the German Spring Offensive.
The RWF were ordered to make a frontal attack in low number to take the wood , the Germans were well dug in and prepared.
8 Officers and 65 Other ranks killed.
Buried at Martinsart Cemetary.
ON HOLD for WJ.

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