April 1943 No.3 Commando War Diary records Private Howells being at 96 British General Hospital. Service number and regiment indicates likely entry to Commandos via 2nd Police Intake at Achnacarry in 1942. His Medal Application gives delivery address as the Police Station, Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, S. Wales. It lists his regiment as Corps of Military Police, Special Investigation Branch, and that he was invalided out of the Armed Forces. Member of the Commando Association last known residing Llanelly, Carmarthenshire.