Herbert Victor Rowley

Name:

Country:

England

Rank:

Captain

Service:

Royal Naval Air Service
Royal Air Force

Units:

1N (RNAS)
201 (RAF)

Victories:

Born:

24 October 1897

Place of Birth:

Audley, Staffordshire

Died:

09 April 1966

Place of Death:

Herbert Victor Rowley joined the Royan Naval Air Service as a Temporary Flight Sub-Lieutenant on 30 Apr 1916. Posted to 1 Naval Squadron as a pilot in February 1917; Flight Commander later in 1917. He was involved in the flight, in October-November 1925, from Helwan, Egypt to Kaduna, Nigeria, led by Squadron Leader Arthur Coningham. Rowley retired from Royal Air Force as an Air Commodore on 26 Oct 1944.

Victories

	Date	Time	Unit	Aircraft	Opponent	Location
1	29 Apr 1917	1150	1N	Sopwith Triplane (N5425)	Albatros D.III (OOC) ¹	Villers les Cagnicourt
2	13 Jul 1917	1025	1N	Sopwith Triplane (N6308)	C (DES) ²	E of Warneton
3	17 Jul 1917	1805	1N	Sopwith Triplane (N5373)	Albatros D.V (OOC) ³	4 mi E of Messines
4	26 Aug 1917	0750	1N	Sopwith Triplane (N6301)	DFW C (OOC) ⁴	E of Deulemont
5	13 Nov 1917	1210	1N	Sopwith Triplane (N5472)	C (OOC)	SE of Nieuport
6	12 Mar 1918	1315	1N	Sopwith Camel (B6429)	Balloon (DES) ⁵	Ypres
7	16 Mar 1918	1145	1N	Sopwith Camel (B6429)	Albatros D.V (OOC)	Dixmude
8	21 Mar 1918	1550	1N	Sopwith Camel (B6429)	Albatros D.V (DES)	Nieuport
9	01 Apr 1918	1300	201	Sopwith Camel (B6429)	Albatros D.V (OOC)	Arras-Albert

1	Shared with FSL Cyril Ridley (N5437)
2	Shared with FCdr Forster Maynard (N5479), FSL Anthony Spence (N5459)
3	Shared with FCdr Forster Maynard (N5479), FSL E Anthony (N6296), FSL Cyril Ridley (N6304), FSL Cecil Brock (N5485), FSL G B G Scott (N5455), FLt H L Everitt (N6308), FSL Anthony Spence (N6300)
4	Shared with FSL Stanley Rosevear (N6299)
5	Shared with FCdr Cyril Ridley (B6418)