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Auction: 11010 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 99

The Second War Group of Four to Flight Sergeant H.D. Rowe, Royal Air Force, Killed in Action at Habbaniya, Iraq, 16.5.1941, During the Uprising Led By Sayid Rashid el Gailani 1939-1945 Star; Defence and War Medals; Royal Air Force Long Service & G.C., G.VI.R. (363003. Sgt. H.D. Rowe. R.A.F.), generally good very fine or bettter, with several contemporary photographs of R.A.F. Habbaniya, and comprehensive research (4) Estimate £ 150-200 363003 Flight Sergeant Harry Dolton Rowe, a native of Plymouth; enlisted as an Apprentice as R.A.F. Halton, 1922; and was serving in the Technical Hangers at the R.A.F. training school Habbaniya during the Iraqi revolt under Sayid Rashid el Gailani, April-May 1941; Rowe was killed in action, 16.5.1941, on the latter date the R.A.F. Base (which had been the scene of earlier fighting) came under attack from German bombers, ´the Heinkels made two passes, dropping six bombs on each run, two from each Heinkel. They hit their targets fair and square. They went for the hangars which, normally, are the most productive airfield targets; the ensuing fierce petrol-fires inside do great damage. And, naturally, the biggest hangars are the juiciest..... I wondered how the aircraft-maintenance and workshops-hangars had fared. They were the largest, so the Germans had concentrated on them. They had made a very good bombing job indeed, doing a lot of damage and they killed several people.´ (The War That Never Was, refers); Flight Sergeant Rowe was buried in Habbaniya War Cemetery, Iraq.

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