BORN HULL 1896. SON OF SAMUEL ROBERT ROWAN (1862-1939) & SARAH ELLEN ARCHER (1868-1953), OF 80 SPYVEE STREET, HULL. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. WAS A MEMBER OF THE WESLEYAN, KINGSTON CHAPEL SUNDAY SCHOOL, AT WITHAM. EMPLOYED BY MESSR, LAVARACK & GODDARD, SAWMILLS IN WITHAM, HULL.
HE SERVED WITH THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEERS. LEFT ENGLAND ON 14/07/1915. DIED OF WOUNDS AT GALIPOLLI, ON 10/08/1915, AGED ONLY 19. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON BOTH THE SPYVEE STREET & ST MARK STREET MEMORIALS. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH APPEAR IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 10TH SEPTEMBER 1915, AND THE HULL TIMES, ON 11TH SEPTEMBER 1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *