Notes
The Roll lists his address as 84 Taverners Road.
(CWGC records that Private Harry Rowe, regimental number 47199, died aged 31 on 1/11/1918 serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and is buried in grave 8.2.704 at Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough. They record him as a native of King's Lynn, the son of Robert and Alice Rowe, and the husband of Lilian Annie Rowe of 84 Taverners Road, Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that Harry died at Blackpool Hospital, and that his widow Lilian was his legatee. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that he enlisted in Shepherd's Bush. The Medal Rolls record that he was sent to the Egyptian Theatre on 13/6/1915. Harry's birth was registered in Norwich District in 1887. On the 1891 and 1901 census he was living with his parents Robert and Alice in Wisbech Road, King's Lynn. By the 1911 census his parents were living at Saddlebow Road in King's Lynn, while Harry himself was living in Hampstead Road, St Pancras, London. Harry's marriage to Lilian Annie Barnes was registered in Peterborough District in 1918. Harry's death from gastritis on 1/11/1918 at Seafield Military Hospital in Blackpool was announced in the Peterborough Advertiser on 9/11/1918. The report stated he had enlisted in 1914 and had served three and a half years on a Hospital ship. About three months before his death he had been posted to a depot in Blackpool and had been awaiting orders for a further posting overseas. His funeral was held at Cobden Street Primitive Methodist Church before his burial in Broadway Cemetery. Among the wreaths sent was one from his colleagues on Hospital ship Neuralia).