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Name: ROWE, Charles Henry
Birth Date: 16.12.1902
First Date: 1938
Profession: Sub-Engineer/Inspector, Posts & Telegraphs Dept., in 1939, appointed 1938
Area: Dar es Salaam
Married: Stella b. 1.3.1906
Book Reference: Staff 39, Colonial, EA & Rhodesia
War Service: Military service 1919-26
School: Regimental School, King's Royal Rifle Corps
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 26/12/57 - Mr C.H. Rowe ("Bwana Simu"), who had served with the EA Posts and Telegraphs Department since 1938, has retired. One of his tasks early in the last war was to dismantle the old German telegraph lines between Kigoma and Kasanga so that the wire might be used for the Ethiopian campaign.
Colonial - Sub-Engnr. 1945; Supvg. Techn. 1953
Ancestry Passenger List 2 Aug 1957 Mombasa-London