Four: Mechanician H. J. Bowles, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (284798 Mech., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (284798 Mech., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (284798 Mechn., H.M.S. Dreadnought), the last with minor official correction to ship’s name, contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise about very fine and better (4) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee.

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Herbert Joseph Bowles was born at Clerkenwell, London in April 1877 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in February 1897. A Mechanician by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he served for virtually the entire War aboard H.M.S. Dreadnought, the revolutionary “all big gun” battleship and the first large warship to be propelled by turbines. Bowles was demobilised in April 1919.