Name
Nathaniel John Fowler
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/04/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
1511
Royal Engineers
1st/2nd (North Midland) Field Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY, NORD
K. 11.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Harpenden Town Memorial, Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Harpenden
Pre War
Nathaniel John was born in 1882 in Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire, the second son of James Fowler, a boot & shoemaker, and Elizabeth (nee Aldridge).
By the 1891 Census the family were living at Bowling Alley, Harpenden and by 1901 census they were living on Wheathampstead Road, Harpenden, Nathaniel was employed as a carpenter. Nathaniel joined the Royal Navy on 14 Oct 1902, buying his discharge on 21 Mar 1907. He married Annie Kate Fensome in 1907.On the 1911 Census they were living at Coleswood Road, Harpenden and there were daughters Ivy and Doris.
Wartime Service
He volunteered in August 1914, enlisting in the Royal Engineers as Sapper 1511 in 1/2 North Midland Field Company. This was a Territorial Formation and was allocated to 46 (North Midlands) Division Nathaniel went to France on 1 Mar 1915 with the Division and where deployed to The Ypres Area. Nathaniel died from wounds received in action on 21 April 1915.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £3 and arrears of £6 13s 9d paid to his widow Annie. Brother George Edward served in Royal Flying Corps as Airman 2 and survived WW 1
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History
Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk)
