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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 864

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel V.E. Rowse, Somerset Light Infantry and 24th Battalion (Denbighshire Yeomanry) Royal Welsh Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. V.E. Rowse.); Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R, reverse dated ´1941´, with ´Territorial´ top riband bar, gilt slightly worn on last, generally very fine or better (5) Estimate £ 160-200 T.D. London Gazette 29.4.1941 Major Victor Espenak Rowse, Somerset Light Infantry (2263). Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Espenak Rowse, T.D., commissioned Temporary Second Lieutenant Somerset Light Infantry attached Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 27.3.1918; served during the Great War with the 24th (Denbighshire Yeomanry) Royal Welsh Fusiliers in the French Theatre of War from, 16.7.1918; discharged 30.1.1919 re-engaged and advanced Major Somerset Light Infantry, 24.8.1939 and served during the Second War as Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Lichfield Sub-Area, West Lancashire, from 12.1.1941; retired Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel after the Second World War.

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