Gunner 1523172 Bertram Harris Fowler, known as Bert served his country during WW2 in the Royal Artillery (218 Bty., 73 Lt. A.A. Regt). He was one of the twelve children of Frederick Thomas Fowler and Annie Fowler nee Seaviour.
Bert died in active service when during the nights of Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th November 1942 British and German long range guns fired shells across the Straights of Dover. He was laid to rest at East Cemetery, Bournemouth aged 25 and was entitled to be awarded the British WW2 medals.
Commemorated in perpetuity by Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Also killed in the shelling were the following:
Daniel Lehane
Norman Ballantyne,
John William Abbott
Ronald Goodchild
Frederick Kelly
Leonard Chillingworth
William Turner
Ernest Parratt
William Hutchison
Peter Loudon
Bert died in active service when during the nights of Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th November 1942 British and German long range guns fired shells across the Straights of Dover. He was laid to rest at East Cemetery, Bournemouth aged 25 and was entitled to be awarded the British WW2 medals.
Commemorated in perpetuity by Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Also killed in the shelling were the following:
Daniel Lehane
Norman Ballantyne,
John William Abbott
Ronald Goodchild
Frederick Kelly
Leonard Chillingworth
William Turner
Ernest Parratt
William Hutchison
Peter Loudon
Gunner 1523172 Bertram Harris Fowler, known as Bert served his country during WW2 in the Royal Artillery (218 Bty., 73 Lt. A.A. Regt). He was one of the twelve children of Frederick Thomas Fowler and Annie Fowler nee Seaviour.
Bert died in active service when during the nights of Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th November 1942 British and German long range guns fired shells across the Straights of Dover. He was laid to rest at East Cemetery, Bournemouth aged 25 and was entitled to be awarded the British WW2 medals.
Commemorated in perpetuity by Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Also killed in the shelling were the following:
Daniel Lehane
Norman Ballantyne,
John William Abbott
Ronald Goodchild
Frederick Kelly
Leonard Chillingworth
William Turner
Ernest Parratt
William Hutchison
Peter Loudon
Bert died in active service when during the nights of Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th November 1942 British and German long range guns fired shells across the Straights of Dover. He was laid to rest at East Cemetery, Bournemouth aged 25 and was entitled to be awarded the British WW2 medals.
Commemorated in perpetuity by Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Also killed in the shelling were the following:
Daniel Lehane
Norman Ballantyne,
John William Abbott
Ronald Goodchild
Frederick Kelly
Leonard Chillingworth
William Turner
Ernest Parratt
William Hutchison
Peter Loudon
Inscription
1523172 GUNNER B H FOWLER, ROYAL ARTILLERY, 9TH NOVEMBER 1942, AGE 24. IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR BERT, HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE. LOVED AND SADLY MISSED
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