{"id":1554,"date":"2016-10-18T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2020-10-16T12:53:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T12:53:50","slug":"kenneth-overend-howard-smith-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/?p=1554","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Overend Howard Smith-Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Smith-Howard was born on Christmas Day 1892 to George Howard Smith-Howard, a wholesale stationer, of Clapham Common, and his wife Emma Susan Laura, daughter of Henry Overend Wilson, of London.<a href=\"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/19161018_Smith-HowardKOH.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1557 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/19161018_Smith-HowardKOH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His elder brother, Henry Wilfrid Howard Smith-Howard, had already completed his time at the school, so Kenneth was following in Henry\u2019s footsteps when he arrived up Ashburnham in 1906. Whilst at the school, he studied on the Classical side and when he left the school in 1911 to go to Pembroke College, Oxford, he intended to take holy orders.<\/p>\n<p>In May 1915, Henry, who was articled to a solicitor at the time, joined the Inns of Court OTC and the following August, Kenneth had joined the same OTC. However, by this time Henry had moved on to the 4<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, with whom he went out to Egypt in January 1916.<\/p>\n<p>On the 1<sup>st<\/sup> June 1916, Kenneth was made 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Lieutenant with the 10<sup>th<\/sup> (Reserve) Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, and went out with them to the western front on 13<sup>th<\/sup> July. He was involved in the Battle of the Somme, but was killed in action near Bapaume on the 18<sup>th<\/sup> of October 1916. His brother Henry was wounded in the war, but survived and eventually went on to become a practicing solicitor in London.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth\u2019s return in the Oxford University Roll of Service notes that his Commanding Officer said \u201che was splendid\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/SmithHoward-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1556\" src=\"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/SmithHoward-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/SmithHoward-1.jpg 680w, http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/SmithHoward-1-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Smith-Howard was born on Christmas Day 1892 to George Howard Smith-Howard, a wholesale stationer, of Clapham Common, and his wife Emma Susan Laura, daughter of Henry Overend Wilson, of London. His elder brother, Henry Wilfrid Howard Smith-Howard, had already &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/?p=1554\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[786,104,787,303,343,486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/firstworldwar.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}