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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 554

Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), E.VII.R. (Captn. R. M. Cowley, E.I. Ry. Voltr. Rfls.), good very fine

[O.B.E.] London Gazette 8 January 1919.

Robert Mansfield Cowley was born on 9 September 1864 at Kurrachee, son of Patrick Cowley, a Lieutenant in the Veterans Establishment and formerly Commissary of Ordnance. Having returned to England for his education at The College, Southampton and King's College, London, he was appointed a Ticket Inspector at Jamalpur in 1885. Swiftly promoted to Officiating General Assistant, he was Chief Clark, Traffic Department, Sahebgunge by 1889 and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the East India Railway Volunteer Rifles on 27 November 1891. Promoted Lieutenant on 1 February 1896, Captain on 6 August 1900 and Honorary Major on 10 August 1907, he was awarded the Long Service Medal on 25 May 1908 (Indian Army Order 290, refers). He added the Indian Volunteer Officer's Decoration in December 1908 and continued to rise through the ranks. Married at Lyme Regis in September 1910, he was a Traffic Manager upon taking leave in Europe in 1913, arriving in Hull from Bombay with his wife. Appointed to Lieutenant-Colonel at Howrah on 5 December 1914, Cowley served in Railway Transport during the Great War and was appointed O.B.E. on the Armistice. A Governor of Oakgrove School, East India Railway, he returned to Britain and died at Prince's Square, Bayswater on 5 January 1949; sold with detailed copied research.

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Sold for
£230

Starting price
£100