Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War O.B.E. group of three awarded to Engineering Captain E. J. Rosevere, Royal Navy

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Eng. Commr. E. J. Rosevere, R.N.) with flattened named card boxes of issue for the British War and Victory Medals, minor contact marks and edge nicks, otherwise good very fine (3) £160-£200

O.B.E. London Gazette 27 June 1919:
‘For valuable services as Chief Engineer, H.M. Dockyard, Cape of Good Hope’.

Edward James Rosevere was born at Stoke Damerel, Devon on 9 December 1872 and attended the Royal Naval Engineering School at Devonport. He obtained his first naval engineering commission as Assistant Engineer on 1 July 1893 and was promoted Engineer on 5 August 1897, and Engineering Commander on 1 July 1909. He was stationed at various ships, shore bases and establishments in the course of his naval career including H.M.S. Vivid, H.M.S. Bellona, H.M.S. President, H.M.S. Mercury, H.M.S. Egmont, H.M.S. Leander and H.M.S. Thrasher, and was posted from H.M.S. Hyacinth to the Cape Dockyard in January 1915. For his services during the Great War he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 7 June 1918) and was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1919. Promoted Engineering Captain on 9 December 1922, in 1939 he is recorded as a retired Engineering Captain, Royal Navy residing at Newbury, Berkshire. He died on 11 March 1955.