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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 58

East and West Africa 1887-1900, one clasp, Gambia 1894 (E.T. [sic] Howe, Armr's. Mte., H.M.S. Satellite.), contact marks, nearly very fine

159565 Chief Armourer Ernest James Cowell Howe, born Plymouth, Devon, May 1869; joined the Royal Navy, as Armourer's Crew, H.M.S. Excellent, March 1891; promoted Armourer's Mate, H.M.S. Excellent, February 1893; transferred to H.M.S. Satellite, January 1894; to H.M.S. Wildfire, August 1897; advanced Chief Armourer, H.M.S. Furious, July 1901; shore pensioned, March 1913; re-enlisted for Service during the Great War in H.M.S. Aboukir, 2.8.1914; killed in action when H.M.S. Aboukir was sunk by a German submarine in the North Sea, 22.9.1914, and is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.

Approximately 166 'Gambia 1894' clasp awards to H.M.S. Satellite.

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