27/12/2018 |
Private Alexander Richardson, Inniskillings, wounded recently, is on leave in the district, and Private Samuel Rowe, of the same regiment, is also spending a few days home from the front. |
27/12/2018 |
From the Mid Ulster Mail dated 6th January 1918: Maghera |
20/03/2016 |
Private Samuel Rowe has no known grave and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial in Picardie, France. |
20/03/2016 |
Samuel Rowe was the son of Joseph Rowe. He was born in Tamlaght O’Crilly, Upperlands about 1887. |
20/03/2016 |
There is a suspicion that Samuel is a brother of Robert John Rowe, but this has not been proved. Private Samuel Rowe is listed as a witness regarding Private Robert John Rowe’s Will, so it seems certain the two were related. |
20/03/2016 |
Samuel Rowe married Lizzie Porter on the 26th June 1915 in the district of Magherafelt. They lived in Mullagh, Maghera. |
20/03/2016 |
Samuel Rowe enlisted in Coleraine. |
20/03/2016 |
Private Samuel Rowe served throughout the war with the 10th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers until the battalion was disbanded in February 1918. |
20/03/2016 |
He had been home on leave in January 1918. |
20/03/2016 |
Private Samuel Rowe was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action during the German Spring Offensive on Sat 23rd March 1918. |
20/03/2016 |
Samuel Rowe is also commemorated in Churchtown Presbyterian Church in Tamlaght O’Crilly. |
20/03/2016 |
The CWGC record Private Samuel Rowe as the son of Joseph Rowe and also as the husband of Lizzie Rowe of Mullagh, Maghera, Co. Derry. |
20/03/2016 |
Private Rowe had been wounded on three previous occasions. |