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Murray: Captain OC Major 5.9.1900, Queen's South Africa medal and 5 clasps (Jbgh. DH & Belf.).
Newbury1: Colonial Armed Forces Long Service & Good Conduct medal 1902 Volunteer Decoration 1907.
Source:# 445 Aust. Regt., harassing the enemy.
URL1: Aust. Boer War Memorial database record.
URL2: ball held in Mt. Gambier SA to honour Maj. HOWLAND and returning comrades.
URL3: QSA & 5 clasps.
URL4: Lieut. Col. HOWLAND spoke at impromptu end-of-war celebration in Penola SA.
URL5: letter c1.1900 from Capt. HOWLAND SA (claiming support from Capt. LEGGE NSW) re complaints that Victoria monopolised the Aust. Regt. commands and that officers will only receive useful experience if attached to British Regiments.
URL6: PENOLA Wednesday [4.6.1902]. Lieutenant-Colonel HOWLAND, who was present [at the Peace celebration at the Royal Oak Hotel], spoke to the toast, and gave an interesting sketch of his experiences in South Africa with the 1st South Australian Contingent. Messrs. R MACCLENAGHAN, LW PEAKE and SB WORTHINGTON also spoke to the toast, which was enthusiastically drunk with musical honors. The Chairman then proposed the toast of the army of Great Britain, coupled with that of Lieut.-Colonel HOWLAND and the South
Eastern men who had been and returned from the war. He congratulated Col. HOWLAND and others who had gained well-deserved promotion in the field. This toast was also drunk with musical honors, and Lieut.-Colonel HOWLAND feelingly responded on behalf of himself, Sergt.-Saddler PEAKE and Trooper SKENE.
URL7: Lieut. JL MILLER, adjutant to the Defence Rifle Clubs of the state, who was at
one time a resident of the district as public school teacher at Compton, has presented the town, through the Institute, with two large crayon portraits of Major HOWLAND and the late Lieut. POWELL, officers of the South Australian 1st contingent for South Africa. The portraits, which have been splendidly
executed by Lieut. MILLER's brother, who is a portrait artist in America, are well framed. Lieut. MILLER first offered them to the Town Council, but the Council considered the Art Gallery would be preferable for them to the
Town Hall, and he then offered them to the Institute, and the trustees, at their meeting on Thursday evening [9.1.1902] accepted them. Doubtless, as the stream of years runs on, the portraits, as those of the officers of the first
contingent ever sent by the state to participate in war, and in the case of one of them a likeness of the first South Australian who sacrificed his life in the service of the Empire, will possess an ever growing interest and value, apart from their value as works of art.
URL8: Major FK HOWLAND, of Mount Gambier,
who was in charge of the first contingent, of South Australians sent to the Boer war, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
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