Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Pair: Corporal W. Fowler, Cheshire Yeomanry
British War and Victory Medals (1436 Cpl. W. Fowler. Ches. Yeo.); together with a Territorial Force Imperial Service Badge, very fine

Three: Gunner A. E. Fowler, Royal Horse Artillery, who was taken prisoner in the Middle East in 1941, escaped, and was subsequently Mentioned in Despatches
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; together with the recipient’s King’s Badge for Loyal Service, in card box of issue, very fine (5) £240-£280

Wilmot Fowler was serving with the 2nd Regiment, Cheshire Yeomanry by early 1915. This Regiment did not serve overseas so he presumably transferred at some point to the 1st Regiment during the Great War.

Alwyn Everand Fowler served as a Gunner with the 104th (Essex Yeomanry) Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery during the Second World War. He was taken prisoner in the Middle East on 2 April 1941 and released in 1944, and was subsequently Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 1 March 1945).

According to a type-written note included with the lot, the recipient was: ‘Captured at El Mechili in April 1941, Fowler was imprisoned at Sulmona (Camp 78) at the time of the Armistice. He was recaptured almost immediately after his release from Camp 78 and was entrained for transfer to Germany. With two others, Fowler unscrewed the bars covering a small window in the truck and having smashed the glass, climbed out in darkness as the train was moving away from a station. They made their way into the mountains and stayed at Casa Marce. Owing to Fascist activity Fowler moved to El Dolio, where he lived for nine months. British Troops were met at Todi on 15 June 1944.’

Sold with A. E. Fowler’s original M.I.D. Certificate and letters regarding his capture as a Prisoner of War; a silver hallmarked Cheshire Yeomanry 1915 Boxing medal (April 1915 Trooper Wilmot Fowler Light Weights); Chester Yeomanry and other buttons and lapel badges; R.F.A. and Essex Yeomanry cap badges; two Essex Yeomanry brass ‘trench art’ brass plates, for 104th (E.Y.) R.H.A. Cairo 1940 and Egypt 1941; and two photograph albums, one family content, the other early Great War with 11 photographs.