FOWLER, Robert
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
11 Commando
'Layforce'
Regiment/Corps:
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Service:
Army
Number:
2932499
P.O.W. number:
253055
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Tuesday, May 20, 1919
Birthplace:
Stirling
Died :
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Age:
93
Robert Fowler enlisted into the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders on 18 October 1939, civil occupation - Enameller. Private Fowler later volunteered for the Commandos and was attached to No.11 Commando 10 Troop embarking with them for the Middle East as part of Layforce. He was reported missing later confirmed a prisoner of war 20 November 1941 during operations at Cyrenaica. During his captivity at Stalag IVA he was in a working camp at Freital, Dresden, unloading wagons.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/36, 38, and 97.
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/1 and WO392/21.
German Record Cards of British PoWs / National Archives file WO416/126/408.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/111/2.
[Image] Iain Jamieson, nephew.
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