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Combeignteignhead, Devon

Church of All Saints, Combeignteignhead graveyard in Devon:

 

"In proud and loving memory of Nicholas James Lang Fowler RAF; Died March 22nd 1942 aged 27"

 

AC2 Nicholas J.L. FOWLER - 1078169 was attached to RAF Cranwell. He died after a brief illness in Whipton Isolation hospital near Exeter, of cerebro spinal meningitis.

His funeral was reported in the Western Morning News of March 27th 1941:

Comrades in the Royal Air Force acted as bearers at the funeral in Combe-in-Teignhead yesterday of Mr. Nicholas James Lang Fowler, who died last Saturday after a brief illness at the age of 27. Until he joined the R.A.F. Mr. Fowler was on the teaching staff of Alphington Council School

- Church of All Saints, Combeinteignhead Devon

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