Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant W. A. Rowe, Royal Marines, late Baltic and Corn Exchange Unit, British Red Cross Society

1914 Star (W. A. Rowe. B.R.C.S. & O. St. J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. W. A. Rowe. R.M.) very fine (3) £140-£180

William Albert Rowe was born in Oldham, Lancashire, in 1892 and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in October 1914. He served during the Great War initially with the Baltic and Corn Exchange Unit, British Red Cross Society, as an Orderly on the Western Front from 10 November 1914, and in November 1915 appears to have enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps. In November 1916 he was in hospital with a broken leg, but by March 1917 had recovered and was in Italy. He was granted a Commission in the Royal Marines on 27 February 1918, and finished the War as a Lieutenant.