BORN HULL 1892. SON OF DANIEL (LATE SHIPWRIGHT) & MARY ROWE, OF 16 DIVISION ROAD, HULL, (CWGC ADDRESS). HIS FATHER WAS FOREMAN RIGGER, AT HELLYER’S STEAM FISHING COMPANY. CHARLES ROWE LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS HE WAS A LATE SHIP RIGGER AND WELL KNOWN AT ST ANDREW’S DOCK. FORMER MEMBER OF HULL THURSDAY CYCLING ROAD CLUB. HE WAS WeLL KNOWN IN CYCLING CIRCLES AND HELD THE 50 MILE AND 25 MILE CLUB RECORD.
ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 528TH EAST RIDING ROYAL ENGINEERS. HE HAD BEEN IN FRANCE FOR ELEVEN MONTHS WHEN HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH, IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 25TH MAY 1917. *
HE IS BURIED AT FAUBOURG D’AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE EAST RIDING ROYAL ENGINEER’S MEMORIAL AT HULL MINSTER.
HIS TWO BROTHERS ALSO SERVED IN THE ARMY.
NB: PHILIP ROWE, EYR – 51 REDBOURNE ST
