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parachute but injured a leg so badly that after two days his French rescuers gave him up to the
Germans so that he could receive specialist medical attention. Two months later the allies
liberated Paris so Walter was repatriated to a hospital in Wales where his recovery continued.

404 Gordon ROWEN (1908-1987) (Inducted 8.3.1965; died in 12.2.1987 whilst
still a member.) Butcher. He was in partnership with his twin brother Eric,
trading as E & G Rowen with shop premises in Priory Road, Dudley from
the early 1930s. They were born at Llanvihangel Crucorney near
Abergavenny, Monmouthshire but their railway inspector father and
family moved to Birmingham when they were infants. On leaving school
Gordon started work with a firm of stockbrokers in Birmingham but it went
out of business when the Depression came. He then worked as an
accountant until his parents insisted that he join his brother in the
butchery business. Gordon was father of John Rowen who joined the Rotary club in 1985
(member #511). During his last five years Gordon was a resident of Rotary House at Russell’s
Hall.

405 William Frederick ROWLAND, MBE (1918-2002) (Inducted 28.6.1965; left January 1966 on being
transferred to Oswestry.) Employment Exchanges. He was with the Dudley Employment
Exchange in Parsons Street, presumably as Manager, from 1963 or 64, but was soon appointed
Manager of the Ministry of Labour offices in Oswestry where he appears to have remained for
the rest of his career. As a long serving Higher Executive Officer with the Department of
Employment he was awarded the MBE at New Year 1977. He grew up in Birkenhead but left
home and started work as a shipping clerk in Birmingham. During the 1940s he appears to have
worked in Welshpool and Middlesborough but it is not known if he had become a civil servant
by then. During his brief spell in Dudley he lived in Kingswinford. He then moved to the village
of Pant near Oswestry and joined Oswestry Rotary club.

406 Douglas Sanders WARREN (1920-2004) (Inducted 21.6.1965; left in
1995/96.) Planning Administration (Government). Borough Engineer &
Planner for the County Borough of Dudley from 1959 and previously
deputy borough engineer from about 1955. He took early retirement on
local government reorganisation in 1974. Soon afterwards he joined the
Department of the Environment as a Planning Inspector and for several
years presided over public local inquiries into highways and general
development schemes. He was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. During the
last war he served with the Royal Engineers from 1941, reaching the rank
of Major. During the Burma Campaign he was with the 604 Railway Construction Company and
Transportation Directorate at the ALFSEA (Allied Land Forces South East Asia) headquarters in
Barrackpore, Calcutta and later in Burma itself. After army service he is believed to have worked
in Dartford, Kent, before coming to Dudley. In later life he was a prominent member of the
Sherlock Holmes Society and keen amateur geologist.

407 Edward Lloyd LLOYD-HUGHES, JP (1924-2017) (Inducted 21.6.1965;
President 1973/74; left in 1991/92.) Architecture. He was a Partner - and
for a time Senior Partner - of Alan Young & Partners, Parsons Street, Dudley,
architects and town planners which he joined in 1954. Although he retired
from the firm about 1990 he continued to practise from his home in
Edgbaston. He was born in Smethwick but attended school in Edgbaston
and King Edward's Birmingham before starting at the Birmingham School
of Architecture in 1940. In 1942 he enlisted in the Royal Navy, rising to the
rank of Lieutenant RNVR and later had command of an Infantry Landing