Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Four: Superintendent W. J. Rowe, London Fire Brigade

Jubilee 1897, L.C.C.M.F.B. (William J. Rowe); Coronation 1902, L.C.C.M.F.B. (William J. Rowe); Coronation 1911, London Fire Brigade (Supt. W. J. Rowe); L.C.C. Metropolitan Fire Brigade Good Service Medal, 2nd type by Spink, London (William J. Rowe), bronze, some contact marks, nearly very fine and better (4) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Fire Brigade Medals.

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William James Rowe was born on the Isle of Grain, Kent on 19 October 1862. He entered the Metropolitan Fire Brigade as a Fireman Fourth Class on 8 October 1885, having previously served in the Merchant Navy. On 10 November 1900, as a Fireman First Class, he was commended for saving 15 lives at a fire on Pelham Street, East London, which occured on 6 November. He was awarded L.C.C. Metropolitan Fire Brigade Good Service Medal on 6 July 1901. On 4 April 1910, based at Clapham Station, he was appointed Superintendent. On 26 May 1914 he retired with a pension. Sold with copied service papers. The medals and a copied photograph mounted in a glass fronted frame.