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Seven: Lieutenant Colonel R. H. W. Fowler, South Wales Borderers India General Service...
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Seven: Lieutenant Colonel R. H. W. Fowler, South Wales Borderers India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (2-Lieut. R. H. W. Fowler. S. Wales. Bord.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S.E. Asia 1945-46 (Lt. Col. R. H. W. Fowler. S.W.B.); Malaysia, Pingat Khidmat Berbakti (General Service Medal), silver, unnamed as issued, contact marks, the named medals sometime plated now lacking in places, otherwise very fine (7) £280-£340 --- Richard Hugh Wade Fowler, the son of Colonel H. G. C. Fowler, D.S.O., was bron at The Priory, Brecon, on 25 September 1916. Educated at Wellington College and Sandhurst, he was commissioned into his father’s regiment on 27 August 1936. A noted sportsman, he reached the semi-final of junior Wimbledon and later won the Eritrean Singles Tennis Championship in 1951 when he beat an Italian Davis Cup player, and, furthermore, partnered Lord Chalfont to win the Men’s doubles final. He saw active service on the North West Frontier of India during the Waziristan campaign, and served during the Second War in Burma as a company commander with the 6th Battalion. Severely wounded at the Battle of Pinwe (a regimental battle honour), he was evacuated to India, and upon recovery returned to his battalion as second in command, in the Dutch East Indies. Pst war he served in Eritrea with the 1st Battalion, before a posting to the British Military Mission in Melbourne, Australia, before a further posting at home and retirement in 1965. Sold with copied obituary from the regimental gazette. For the recipient’s father’s medals, see Lot 1.
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Seven: Lieutenant Colonel R. H. W. Fowler, South Wales Borderers India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (2-Lieut. R. H. W. Fowler. S. Wales. Bord.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S.E. Asia 1945-46 (Lt. Col. R. H. W. Fowler. S.W.B.); Malaysia, Pingat Khidmat Berbakti (General Service Medal), silver, unnamed as issued, contact marks, the named medals sometime plated now lacking in places, otherwise very fine (7) £280-£340 --- Richard Hugh Wade Fowler, the son of Colonel H. G. C. Fowler, D.S.O., was bron at The Priory, Brecon, on 25 September 1916. Educated at Wellington College and Sandhurst, he was commissioned into his father’s regiment on 27 August 1936. A noted sportsman, he reached the semi-final of junior Wimbledon and later won the Eritrean Singles Tennis Championship in 1951 when he beat an Italian Davis Cup player, and, furthermore, partnered Lord Chalfont to win the Men’s doubles final. He saw active service on the North West Frontier of India during the Waziristan campaign, and served during the Second War in Burma as a company commander with the 6th Battalion. Severely wounded at the Battle of Pinwe (a regimental battle honour), he was evacuated to India, and upon recovery returned to his battalion as second in command, in the Dutch East Indies. Pst war he served in Eritrea with the 1st Battalion, before a posting to the British Military Mission in Melbourne, Australia, before a further posting at home and retirement in 1965. Sold with copied obituary from the regimental gazette. For the recipient’s father’s medals, see Lot 1.
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