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Auction: 22101 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 223

Pair: Able Seaman H. Bowden, Royal Navy, awarded a Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal for lifesaving on the Irrawaddy, Burma in December 1885

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (H. Bowden, Ldg. Seamanm H.M.S. Mariner.); Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Henry Bowden A.B. H.M.S. Mariner 10 Decr. 1885), small collectors number in ink on rim of second, very fine (2)

Ex-Douglas-Morris Collection (Part 2), DNW, February 1997 (India General Service Medal only).

R.H.S. Case No. 22994.

Henry Bowden was born on 1 December 1860 in the village of Charles, near Plymouth, Devon. He joined the service as a Boy 1st Class aboard Impregnable on 12 January 1876 when aged 16 years, transferred to Implacable (January 1876) and advanced to Boy 1st Class on 31 January 1877. Joining Mariner in March 1885, she served on active service in Burma and Bowden was advanced Leading Seaman on 7 August 1886. Awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in 1889 whilst serving aboard Cambridge, he was made Acting Gunner (Warrant Officer) on 17 December 1892, and appointed to the Boy Training establishment Boscawen in January 1893, finally pensioned ashore in June 1906. He died circa 1907.

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