Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Engine Room Artificer 1st Class J. H. Rowe, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (M. 14200 E.R.A. 4, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M. 14200 E.R.A. 4, R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., coinage bust (M. 14200 E.R.A. 1, H.M.S. Curlew), one or two edge bruises and polished, thus good fine or better (4) £70-90

James Henry Rowe was born in Birmingham in January 1887 and entered the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer 4th Class in June 1915. He subsequently witnessed active service in the battleship H.M.S. Dominion, from August 1915 to April 1918 - in which period she survived a U-Boat attack in May 1916 - and, following a brief appointment aboard the Commonwealth, in April to May 1918, transferred to submarines with an appointment at Dolphin. His service record thereafter reveals assorted appointments in ‘H’, ‘K’ and ‘L’ class submarines 1918-28, prior to his return to surface duties in the Calliope in 1928.