Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Burma 1930-32 (Lieut. E. R. Rowbotham, R.E.) good very fine £100-120

E. R. Rowbotham gained a B.A. at Cambridge University. Entering the Royal Engineers, he was commissioned Lieutenant in September 1927 and served in India and Burma. He was promoted Captain in September 1936. With the outbreak of war he was promoted Temporary Major in November 1940, War Substantive Major in February 1943, attaining the rank of Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel at the same time.