Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private J. P. Gowman, Welsh Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (46976 Pte. J. P. Gowman. Welsh R.); together with a Rifle Volunteers pattern medal re-purposed as a Great War Tribute Medal with ring suspension, 39mm, silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1916, the obverse featuring a kneeling rifleman in the firing position, ‘In Defence’ below, the reverse engraved ‘European War Presented to John P. Gowman by the public of Cilfrew 1917’, with a gilt metal ‘Lady Aberdare League’ improvised riband brooch, the last with contact marks especially to reverse centre, otherwise very fine (3) £80-£100

John Philip Gowman was born in 1893 at Neath and resided at 2 Rosser Terrace, Cilfrew, near Neath, and was by trade a tin plate worker. He served in 1st Battalion of the Welsh Regiment during the Great War and was discharged in 1919, having contracted malaria on active service.