Five: Engineering Sub Lieutenant A. Bowles, Royal Naval Reserve, late Private, Northumberland Fusiliers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (8973 Pte. A. Bowles, North’d: Fus:);1914-15 Star (EA. 396, A. Bowles. E.R.A., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Eng. S. Lt. A. Bowles. R.N.R.); Royal Naval Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (Engr. Sub. Lieut. A. Bowles, R.N.R.), mounted as worn, generally very fine (5) £120-160

Alfred Bowles was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 1881. He attested for the Northumberland Fusiliers at the city of his birth, in February 1901. Bowles served with the 2nd Battalion during the Second Boer War, and was discharged 8 July 1902. He served during the Great War, initially as an Engine Room Artificer, with the Royal Naval Reserve, and advanced to Engineering Sub Lieutenant (awarded R.N.R. L.S. & G.C. 27 September 1920).