Civilian, Bomb Disposal. GC, FRS, FRSE. Died 12th May 1941, aged 35. Born 2nd March 1906, 20th Earl of Suffolk and 13th Earl of Berkshire. Special appointment with the Directorate of Scientific Research, Ministry of Supply. Son of Margaret Howard (nee Hyde Leiter), and the late Henry Molyneux Paget Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk and 12th Earl of Berkshire (killed in action in World War One, and also Commemorated on the Charlton Memorial). Husband of Mimi Howard (nee Forde Pigott), Countess of Suffolk and Berkshire, of Charlton Park, Malmesbury. Reporting Authority, Erith, Municipal Borough. Buried at St. John The Baptist Churchyard, Charlton, and Commemorated on a stained glass window in the Church.

Citation — CWGC

Charles Howard, Earl of Suffolk, was the foremost expert on bomb disposal and worked together with his personal assistant and right-hand-man Fred Hards, and his secretary Miss Morden, known by all in the bomb disposal fraternity as the "Holy Trinity". All new types of bomb were attended to by the team, with Hards passing the tools, and Miss Morden remaining close enough to hear and take notes from the dictations of Howard as to the method of defusing. The three lived, worked then died together when an old and rusted bomb being worked on exploded in their faces.