Jack Howard
| Date and Place of Birth: | Circa 1914 Victoria Park, Perth, Western Australia |
| Date and Place of Death: | December 8, 1942 New Guinea |
| Baseball Experience: | Amateur |
| Position: | Unknown |
| Rank: | Private |
| Military Unit: | 2/16th Battalion, 7th Division, Australian Infantry |
| Area Served: | North Africa and New Guinea |
Jack Howard, son of Charles and Agnes Howard, was born in Victoria
Park, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, in 1914. Howard played for
the Chevs Baseball Club, one of the first teams to be organized in
Western Australia in the mid-1930s and comprising primarily of employees
of Sydney Atkinson Motors,distributors of Chevrolet cars,hence the
nickname.
From November 1940 to December 1941, Private Howard fought the Germans
and Italians with 2/16th Battalion of the 7th Division in North Africa.
By August 1942, Howard was fighting the Japanese in New Guinea and was
killed in action on December 8, 1942.
Private Howard is buried at Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery in Papua
New Guinea.
Sources:
West Australian, December 30, 1942
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Australian War Memorial
Date Added: June 23, 2013
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