Pair: Company Quarter-Master Sergeant H. T. Bowen, Monmouth Regiment, attached King’s African Rifles, who died in East Africa in September 1917

British War and Victory Medals (265585 C. Sjt., Monmouth R.), the first with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine and better (2) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Monmouthshire Regiment formed by Lt. Col. P. A. Blagojevic, O. St. J., T.D..

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Howard Thomas Bowen, who was born in Newport and enlisted at Pontypool, and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Bowen, tobacconists of Commercial Street, Newport, died of dysentery at Kilwa Geram, East Africa on 3 September 1917, while attached to the 2/2 King’s African Rifles. Aged 31 years, he was buried in the Dar es Salaam War Cemetery, Tanzania.