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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Howard Cyril
|Army number=895885
|Rank=Gunner
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
|Date of birth=Not yet ascertained.
|Age=(At time of death).  Not yet known.
|Unit=Enlisted ion the Royal Artillery 26/4/1939.  Posted to the 97th Field Regiment.  Posted to the 143rd Field Regiment 11/7/1941.  Posted to the 185th Field Regiment 21/12/1942.  Posted to Regimental Home Details 18/1/1944.  Returned to the 143rd Field Regiment 1/12/1944.  Served North West Europe.  Posted X List (8) (21st Army Group) 28/5/1945.  Returned to the UK.  Posted RA Depot 7/6/1945.  Posted 6th Regiment Royal Horse Artillery 11/7/1945.  Posted Regimental Home Details 30/10/1945.  Posted to the 109th Field Regiment 6/12/1945.  Posted to the 88th Training Regiment 8/2/1946.  Release Unit List 20/46.  Y Release 8/5/1946.  Relegated to the Z/T Reserve 31/7/1946.  Demobilised.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Details awaited.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|Promotions=Sergeant.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Date of death not yet ascertained.
|Home address=No family information yet. 
}}

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