Private Samuel Fowler

Army Number : 306669

Battalion : 2/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, 11th December 1894. Son of Edward and Elizabeth Fowler, of 4, Phoenix Street, Sutton-In-Ashfield. He was employed by the Mansfield and Sutton Co-Operative Society in Outram Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield. He enlisted at Sutton-in-Ashfield 19th January 1916. He served in Ireland during the rebellion before being drafted to France and was killed 26th September 1917, age 22

Commemorated : Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A.

Private Samuel Fowler is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
Sutton-in-Ashfield War Memorial (St. Michael and All Angels Cross), Nottinghamshire.
Sutton-in-Ashfield Cemetery War Memorial, Nottinghamshire.
The Co-Operative Society War Memorial, Queens Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.