BOWLER H.


Harold Bowler 

Lance Corporal 43045

10th Bn., Royal Irish Rifles


Harold Bowler died on Saturday 28th July 1917*, age 26, and was buried in the DERRY HOUSE CEMETERY No. 2, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

He was born c1891 to parents William & Martha Bowler. William Bowler was a Colliery Coke Burner, and a native of Mansfield Woodhouse, who was living with the family on Langford Street, Sutton, in 1901.

Harold Bowler was also the husband of Mrs Lizzie Bowler, of 6 Nesbit Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.


Notts Free Press, 28th June 1918

 

Notts Free Press - Sutton's Roll of Honour - 10th January 1919

Bowler, Lance Corporal Harold, Royal Irish Rifles.

 

From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Royal Irish Rifles

BOWLER Harold. Born Sutton-in-Ash., Notts, enlisted Sutton-in-Ash., Notts. 10th Bn., Royal Irish Rifles, Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 28th June 1916. Formerly 43464 Sherwood Foresters.

 

 

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Research by Heather Faulkes
* www.cwgc.org has the date as 28th July 1917, but this differs from the newspapers and Soldiers Died entry. Soldiers died has 1916 instead of 1917.