Auction Catalogue

29 June 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 619

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29 June 2006

Hammer Price:
£65

Pair: Company Quarter-Master Sergeant H. T. Bowen, Monmouth Regiment, attached King’s African Rifles, who died in East Africa in September 1917

British War and Victory Medals
(265585 C. Sjt., Monmouth R.), the first with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine and better (2) £60-80

Howard Thomas Bowen, who was born in Newport and enlisted at Pontypool, and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Bowen, tobacconists of Commercial Street, Newport, died of dysentery at Kilwa Geram, East Africa on 3 September 1917, while attached to the 2/2 King’s African Rifles. Aged 31 years, he was buried in the Dar es Salaam War Cemetery, Tanzania.