Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Petty Officer H. Rowe, Royal Navy

East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Benin River 1894 (H. Rowe, A.B., H.M.S. Philomel.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (H. Rowe, P.O. 1st Cl: H.M.S. Doris); British War Medal 1914-20 (138443 H. Rowe. P.O. R.N.) nearly very fine or better (3) £280-£320

Henry Andrews was born in St Andrews, Devon, on 2 December 1870 and entered naval service on 6 September 1886 as a Boy 2nd Class in H.M.S. Impregnable. Promoted Able Seaman on 9 September 1890, he served as such in H.M.S. Philomel from 10 November 1891 to 30 November 1894 and in H.M.S. Doris from 18 November 1897, latterly as a Petty Officer 1st Class, to which rate he was promoted on 1 October 1899. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 15 February 1902, and spent most of the Great War at the shore base H.M.S. Vivid.