CAN ANYONE FIND OUT WHERE HE WAS BURIED.
Harold Oscar Rowles was born on Thursday, 7th July 1892 at ‘Allwal New House’, Slaney Street, Gloucester the son of Victor William and Alice Turner Rowles (née Ballinger), a ‘Ship-Broker’ of Gloucester.
He was baptised on 27th July 1892 at St. James’ Church, Gloucester.
In the 1911 census he is age 18 and working as a ‘Ship Broker’s Assistant’.
He is living with his parents at St. Sidwells, Tuffley Avenue, Gloucester.
He enlisted in the Gloucestershire Regiment on 9th November 1914, and gave his address as
No. 2 Avenue Villas, Tuffley Avenue, Gloucester.
He was promoted to Corporal on 27th March 1915.
He was commissioned on 19th December 1916 (Territorial)
Embarked for France 5th February 1917.
Other London Gazette entries are:-
15th July 1918 Commission Gloucestershire Regiment.
10th September 1920 Admitted to the Indian Army on probation.
22nd July 1921 Lieutenant to temporary Captain, 72nd Punjabis.
9th December 1921 Temporary Lieutenant retaining rank of Lieutenant.
5th December 1922 Indian Army Lieutenant.
15th December 1922 Lieutenant retired with the rank of Captain.
19th December 1933 Appointed Vice-Consul at Gloucester.
On 22nd January 1918 he was admitted to 2/3rd South Midland Field Ambulance with Tonsillitis.
He was subsequently transferred to No. 5 Ambulance Train.
He married Annie Beatrice Lottie Howard in 1924 at Marylebone.
(She had previously been married to Edgar E. Howard in 1915. Her maiden name was Kelson.
They had 1 son, Edgar E. Howard born 1916 in St. George Hanover Square, London).
They had 1 son, Victor Torrence Rowles (1925-2010) and 1 daughter, Iris Alice Rowles (1926-2014).
Annie Beatrice died on 17th October 1958 at 229 Tuffley Lane, Gloucester, age 66.
See Administration Bond.
Entry from the ‘Western Daily Press’ dated 11th January 1919:-
LOCAL COMMISSIONS: 6th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment - Lieut. H. O. Rowles is seconded whilst on probation with the Indian Army in the rank of Lieutenant.
In the ‘1939 Register’ he was living at 2 Podsmead Road, Gloucester.
His occupation was given as ‘Shipbroker’.
He was awarded the Order of Orange-Nassau (“Ridder Knight”) by the Queen of the Netherlands
on 8th June 1951. (He was Honorary Vice-Consul of the Netherlands at Gloucester).
He was awarded the Decoration of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour by the President of France
on 2nd September 1958. (He was Consular Agent of France at Gloucester).
He died in Toronto, Canada in 1972, age 79.
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