James Fowler
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James Fowler was the son of Walter Fowler and Emma Seagraves who married at Nottingham in 1881. Their children include: Annie (b.1882), Walter (b.1883), John (b.1885), Mary (b.1887), Thomas Isaiah (b.1890), Frank (b.1882), Bernard (b.1895) and James (b.1897). They lived at: 21 Wallan Street, Radford [C.1891]; 57 Trafalgar Street, Radford [C.1911 & CWGC]. Walter Fowler who was initially employed as a framework knitter and later a cotton patent hand [C.1911], died at Nottingham, aged 86, in 1940. His wife, Emma, had predeceased him, dying at Nottingham, aged 73, in 1928.
Fowler enlisted at Nottingham on 10th December 1915 initially joining the Sherwood Foresters [Service No.69578];transferred to the 10th Training Reserve Bn. [Service No.T/37297] on 5 January 1917; transferred to 9th Training Reserve Bn. [Service No.33540] on 24 March 1917; posted to France 3 May 1917; transferred to the 5th Bn. South Wales Borderers [Service No.40960] on 20 May 1917; received gunshot wound to leg on 11 April 1918 subsequently treated in hospital in Boulogne and back home in Manchester; posted to 15th Bn. South Wales Borderers 8 August 1918; transferred to the 16th Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers [Service No.93961] on 19 September 1918; killed in action 8th October 1918; body buried at the Bois-des-Angles British Cemetery, Crevecoeur-sur-l'Escaut, Nord, France.
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