Private Robert B Fowler

Robert Ball Fowler, son of Harry and Alice Fowler and husband of Florence Fowler, of Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, County Durham, enlisted into The Border Regiment and volunteered for airborne forces.

Private Fowler successfully completed his Glider training and was posted to S Company 1st (Airborne) Battalion, the Border Regiment.

He took part in Operation Market Garden (Arnhem).

Pte Fowler died of wounds on 22 September 1944, aged 29. He is known to have been wounded and taken to the battalion RAP (Regimental Aid Post) in the Dennenoord House (Benedendorpsweg) where he died. According to MoD records he was buried in or near a wood at Oosterbeek, in a collective grave, the location of which has since been lost. He is commemorated on the Groesbeek Memorial, for those with no known grave.

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