I don't know what you'd like to know about it. I can give you a briefing as follows
E.L. was born February 5, 1909 in Jacksonville, St Johns, Florida, USA. He was the first of 10 children (5 boys and 5 girls) to E.L. Rowell, Sr. and his wife, Harriette Cunningham. By 1920, the family had moved to Salem, VA. E.L. Rowell, Sr. worked for the telephone company so the family had moved several times, including living in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, before settling in Virginia. He married Shasta Nelson. They had no children. I was their godchild. After the war, they remained in the Portsmouth, VA area where Shasta was lived when he was overseas. Portsmouth is next to Norfolk, VA and there is a big naval base there. They bought a home in Virginia Beach, VA and lived there for many years until Shasta died in 1980. They had bought a place in Ft. Myers, Florida to use for the winter months after E.L. retired from the telephone company in Norfolk, VA. E.L. decided to move to Ft. Myers permanantly after Shasta died so I only got to see him when he came north for a family reunion.
The house in Va. Beach, VA was on the water and E.L. had a boat that he loved to run about in. He loved to play cards - bridge and poker.
E.L. married a woman that he met after moving to Ft. Myers. I never got to meet her though. E. L. died in 1994.
This is a brief history of the Major, told me by his nephew, Fran Rowell.
Unfortunately she does not know anything about the war period...
I hope this can still be of interest to someone, also if anyone has any other system to know the history of the Major in the Combat Engineer would be great!