There is not much to go on without an exact dob, and given the problems with men making themselves younger. Charles Alan Hill Howard is born 1861 in Gloustershire. He is a long serving soldier and shows the sort of institutional pattern of many of the ADRIC ORs
1861 Born Bedminster , Gloucs
1871 census at Frampton on Severn
1883 May 10 Enlists in Gloucester Reft 2nd Btn. Mother Emily in Stroud
1884 Jan 8 Posted to India
1891 Jan 22. Posted back to UK
1891 Jan 30 Trans to A Reserve
1891 census A Hotel Servant living at Brighton Terrace, Stockwell, Lambeth
1891 Oct 2 Marriage in London
1895 May 9 Discharged from Gloucs Regt
1900 Mar 15 Enlists in Royal Reserve Regt. He was a Billiard Marker
1901 Mar 14. Discharged time expired. 50 Darfield Rd, Broakley
1901 census living in Ramsgate Kent
1911 Census. He is recorded as "Charles Harker Howard"
1914 Oct 24. Embodied. He is living at 18 Darfield Rd, Crofton Pk
1919 Apr 11. Disembodied. He did not serve overseas in WW1. So no MIC
1920 Sep 7. Joined with RIC no 72796 & ADRIC no 5. Cellarman & ex-Soldier
1920 Sep 7 Posted to A Coy
1921 Aug 23 to 6 Sep on Leave
1921 Sep 8. Resigned on completing 12 months
1922 Died Lewisham