| Regimental number | 137 |
| Date of birth | |
| Place of birth | Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Queensland |
| School | Ravenswood State School, Queensland |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Occupation | Bank accountant |
| Address | Queensland National Bank Ltd, Innisfail, Queensland |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 28 |
| Next of kin | Father, John Longton Fowler, State School, Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Enlistment date | |
| Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
| Rank on enlistment | Corporal |
| Unit name | 15th Battalion, A Company |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/32/1 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board Transport A40 Ceramic on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Company Quartermaster Sergeant |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 15th Battalion |
| Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | Keen footballer, and was referee in all matches at Innisfail. |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Place of death or wounding | Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 30 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 17), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 75 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Joseph Longton and Honora Josephine FOWLER, Lindsay Street, Toowoomba, Queensland. Native of Thursday Island, Queensland |
| Family/military connections | Brothers: 446 Sergeant John Cyril FOWLER, Australian Flying Corps, returned to Australia, 3 December 1918; 636 Pte Joseph Harold FOWLER, 5th Machine Gun Bn, returned to Australia, 8 July 1919. |
| Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and was wounded on 29 May during a Turkish attack on Quinn's Post. Was evacuated to hospital in Malta and then to Netley Hospital in England. After recovering from his wound he went to Egypt for training and then was sent to Polygon Wood on 27 September 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
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Canberra BC 2610, Australia
Street Address:
Northcott Drive,
Campbell, ACT 2600
