Sergeant Samuel Bowler

Army Number : 305447 (formerly 2224)

Battalion : 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire. Son of James and Eliza Bowler, of 105, Main Street, Huthwaite. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He went to France 2nd March 1915 and was killed in action, 5th August 1917, age 26, during a raid on the German trenches at Philosophe, France.

Buried/Commemorated : Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France. Plot 1. Row U. Grave 17.

Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France.
Sergeant Samuel Bowler grave

Sergeant Bowler is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Huthwaite Cemetery War Memorial, Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire.
Huthwaite Methodist Church War Memorial, Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.