Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private R. M. Rowan, 1st County of London Yeomanry, killed in action, Gallipoli, 21 August 1915

1914-15 Star (3245 Pte., 1st Co. of. Lond. Y.); British War and Victory Medals (3245 Pte., 1-Co. of Lond. Y.); Memorial Plaque (Roy Melville Rowan) with slip in card envelope, extremely fine (4) £200-250

Roy Melville Rowan was born in Stockwell, London on 25 May 1890 and enlisted at Chelsea. Serving with the 1st County of London Yeomanry (Middlesex Hussars), he entered the Egypt theatre of war on 28 April 1915. Then posted to Gallipoli, he was listed as ‘missing’, then as ‘killed in action’ on 21 August 1915. His name is commemorated on the Hellas Memorial. He was the son of Meville George and Agnes Kate Rowan.

With silver cigarette case (with cigarettes) bearing the cypher ‘GMR’ (?); damaged named card boxes of issue for medals; Birth Certificate; a letter addressed to ‘Miss Rowan, Ivanhoe, Victoria Road, Old Charlton (?), London, S.E.’, from her brother ‘Ernie’ with the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa (not dated), and copied m.i.c. and casualty details.