Five: Chief Engine-Room Artificer P. Stowar, Royal Navy, who served in H.M.S. Marlborough throughout the War, including the battle of Jutland, and was awarded the M.S.M. shortly after Marlborough evacuated members of the Russian Imperial family from Yalta in April 1919

1914-15 Star (M.2541 P. Stowar, E.R.A.3., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Act. C.E.R.A. 2 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (M.2541 C.E.R.A.1 H.M.S. Columbine); Royal Navy Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., Admiral’s bust (M.2541 P. Stowar A/C.E.R.A. 2Cl. “Marlborough” War Services) suspension claw tightened and repaired on the last, otherwise about very fine (5) £350-400

M.S.M. London Gazette 17 July 1919.

Percy Stowar was born at Wimborne, Dorset, on 20 July 1889, and entered the Royal Navy as an acting Engine Room Artificer on 15 October 1910. He joined the battleship Marlborough in June 1914, was present at the battle of Jutland in 1916, and was still serving aboard her when she evacuated the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, Queen Alexandra’s sister, and other members of the Russian Imperial family, from Yalta, in the Crimea, in April 1919. He received his L.S. & G.C. medal in November 1925, was granted a Hurt Certificate for a fractured patella in February 1928, and left the Navy later that year. Sold with copy record of service.

For further details of the services of H.M.S. Marlborough at the battle of Jutland see Lot 1411 for the D.S.O. group awarded to her Executive Commander.