Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A fine Second War ‘Chindit operations’ group of eight awarded to Colour Sergeant A. Fowler, Essex Regiment

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6007062 Cpl. A. Fowler. Essex. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (6007062 C.Sjt. A. Fowler. Essex. R.) mounted as worn, very fine (8) £80-£100

Albert Fowler was born in Chelmsford on 2 March 1913 and attested for the Essex Regiment in 1927. He served with the 1st Battalion in Palestine and as C.Q.M.S. in the Sudan in 1940. Embarked for Tobruk 17 October 1941, he fought against Axis forces under Erwin Rommel and later against the Imperial Japanese Army at Kohima. A Chindit, there are photographs of him with Earl Mountbatten at a Chindit dinner in 1969. Discharged in 1949, he worked as a confectioner in West Kirby, Hoylake.