Claremont

Howard Loftie Eyles

Enlistment Date

14/01/1915

Age At Enlistment

Rank On Enlistment

Corporal

Rank Attained At War’s End

Captain

Regimental No.

702

Battalion

10th Light Horse, B Squadron

Fate

Effective Abroad

Fate Date

01/01/1970

Occupation

Accountant

Place of Birth

Moonee Ponds, Victoria

Religion

Church Of England

Marital Status

Single

Embarkation Details

Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A50 Itonuson 19 February 1915

On 14 July 1923 Howard Eyles appeared in an Honor Roll published in The Western Chronicle for the Claremont Soccer Club. Apparently a supporter or official at the club because his name is absent in playing lists, he was an accountant by trade. After landing at Gallipoli in August 1915 he rose through the ranks during the war and by 1918 was employed as Paymaster of the 1st Australian Division. After the war he moved to Brazil to work for the Mappin department store. Howard Eyles married Frances Standen in Rio De Janeiro in 1940. Before his death in 1958 at the age of 67, he had moved back to Perth.