Saturday 17th July 1920

Payment of an £8 10s. war gratuity was authorised in respect of the late Pte. Richard Spencer Howard (see 17^th January 1918), who had been killed in action in June 1917; the payment would go to his married sister, Emma Forestal, who was described as his ‘sole legatee’ despite the fact that his widow, Martha, was still alive.

Pte. Richard Spencer Howard