A Second War Canadian Medal Bar To Captain Stanhope Rowton

1939-45 Star; Defence Medal; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Overseas Clasp; War Medal 1939-45; and Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with CANADA suspension bar (CAPT S. ROWTON, RCASC). Naming is officially impressed on the ALSGCM. Mounted to a suspension with swing bar pinback, as worn by the veteran, dark patina on the ALSGCM, original ribbons, CVSM has a tarnish streak and is reverse mounted, near extremely fine. Accompanied by a Miniature Group of Five: 1939-45 Star (bronze, 19 mm x 22 mm); Defence Medal (silver, 18.7 mm); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Overseas Clasp (silver, 18.3 mm); War Medal 1939-45 (silver, 18.6 mm); and Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with CANADA suspension bar (silver, 18.3 mm), mounted to a suspension with swing bar pinback, as worn by the veteran, original ribbons, with the CVSM correctly mounted. Accompanied by copies of his Index Card, Service Records (with personal information blacked out), along with his Application for the Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.

Footnote: Stanhope Rowton military career was with the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps. He was part of the Permanent Active Militia from May 4, 1929 to August 31, 1939, enlisting at No. 11 Personnel Depot in Esquimalt, British Columbia on May 4, 1929. Seven months later, he was posted to the Supply Branch as a Private on January 1, 1930 and was awarded a Certificate of Education 2nd Class on October 10th. The following year, Rowton was appointed Lance Corporal on January 23rd, was awarded his 1st Good Conduct Badge on May 4th, was promoted to Corporal on July 1st and listed as a Driver. He re-engaged for an additional three years service on three occassions (May 4, 1932, May 4, 1935, May 4, 1938), seeing a promotion to Sergeant on November 2, 1936 and was awarded a Certificate of Education 1st Class on January 13, 1937. Rowton's service with the Canadian Army Service Force consisted of the seven years overlapping the Second World War, from September 1, 1939 to September 30, 1946. He was to be Acting Company Sergeant Major (Warrant Officer 2nd Class) on June 15, 1940, confirmed in the rank on September 15, 1940, to be Acting Warrant Officer, 1st Class and appointed Acting Sergeant Major with pay while employed as Chief Clerk to the D.S. & T.O., Military District No. 11 on July 1, 1941. He qualified as a 2nd Lieutenant RCASC on January 1, 1942, Class III Motorcycle Driver (Combination and Solo) on March 2, 1942 and named Lieutenant on March 17th while with No. 1 District Company RCASC. By May 1, 1943, Rowton was attached to Pacific Command Headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he was commissioned as an Acting Captain but relinquished the subsequent rank of Captain on August 17th and qualified as Class III Driver (I.C. Wheeled) on August 26th. He had additional training at Red Deer, Alberta and Brockville, Ontario. Rowton saw service in the European theatre in the latter part of the war, embarking for the United Kingdom on June 20, 1944, where he was taken on strength of No. 1 Canadian Army Service Corps Reinforcement Unit upon arrival on July 4th. It was here that he qualified as an RCASC Driver 1st Class (Wheeled) on August 28th and after eight and a half months in the United Kingdom, he embarked for service in North West Europe on March 20, 1945. Upon arrival, he was taken on strength on the X4 List before reporting to the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps on April 28th and was named Acting Captain on May 19th. His stay in Europe was a brief five months and upon the ceasing of hostilities, he embarked the European theatre on August 5, 1945. Upon his return from Europe, he returned to Pacific Command in Vancouver, with later stops in Namaimo and Victoria in British Columbia, as well as at Camp Borden, Ontario. For his WWII service, he was awarded 1939-1945 Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Overseas Clasp and War Medal 1939-1945, entitled to wear the War Service Badge "General Service Class", No. 1091365. In April 1947, he applied for the Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with CANADA Bar and was awarded it in 1948. Post-war, he was part of the Canadian Army Regular from October 1, 1946 to February 4, 1959. He is documented as having been at Camp Borden as part of the RCASC School as a Lieutenant, later being named Acting Captain on October 1, 1946 and Captain on November 3, 1948. He also had a couple of stints with No. 10 Company RCASC in Winnipeg, Manitoba, before stops at Montreal, Quebec and Halifax, Nova Scotia, at which point he returned to Europe. He embarked Canada on July 21, 1955, disembarking in Germany on August 1st and posted to the Canadian Army, Continental Europe for the next twenty-eight months, at which point he embarked the United Kingdom on December 10, 1957 and arrived in Canada on the 16th. Captain Rowton was to spend the remainder of his service in Ottawa, before being released from service on February 4, 1959, credited with having served in Canada, the United Kingdom and North Western Europe. He died in 1996.