Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore

Pair: Mr. S. L. Rowe, Acting Foreman of Works, H.M. Dockyard, Devonport

Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Stanley Leopold Rowe) officially re-impressed naming, in card box of issue; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; together with a silver A.R.P. lapel badge, generally very fine and better (2) £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore.

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Stanley Leopold Rowe was born at Morley Place, Plymouth, on 23 March 1882, the son of a Shipwright in H.M. Dockyard, Devonport. He was employed by Devonport Dockyard as a Hired Carpenter on 25 November 1903 only to be discharged Devonport Dockyard due to ‘Reduction’ on 16 August 1906 but was re-employed again as a Hired Carpenter in November 1906. He continued at H.M. Dockyard throughout the Great War and is shown in the 1921 Census as a Carpenter Joiner employed by the Admiralty at R.N. Barracks, Stonehouse. Appointed Temporary Leading Man at Devonport Dockyard in June 1925, he was awarded the Coronation Medal in 1937 as a Leading Man, Devonport Dockyard, and was appointed Acting Foreman of Works, Devonport Dockyard on 19 July 1937. Invalided to Pension on 14 August 1946 he was awarded the Imperial Service Medal as an Acting Foreman of Works, H.M. Dockyard, Devonport (London Gazette 20 September 1946). He died in Plymouth on 7 March 1968, aged 85.

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