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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 31, 2017 13:18:25 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 31, 2017 13:22:12 GMT 12
This interview is absolutely brilliant!
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Post by Peter Lewis on Dec 31, 2017 19:17:47 GMT 12
AKA Shorty Fowler.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 1, 2018 2:19:05 GMT 12
Did he end up as the RNZAF officer in charge of the Air Training Corps in WWII? His name has come up somewhere in my research in the past.
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Post by davidd on Jan 1, 2018 9:09:37 GMT 12
NZ1159 Philip Kenning Fowler, born 10th June 1896. Served with RNAS 30/4/16 - 31/3/18, RAF from 1/4/18. NZAF (Territorial) 4/6/23 - 29/3/32, then Wing HQ (Territorial) 30/3/32 - 14/9/38, Retired List 15/9/38 - 16/9/40, Wigram 17/9 - 23/10/40, appointed CGI (Chief Ground Instructor) @ Ohakea 24/10/40 - 15/3/42, then OC RTS (Recruit School School) Harewood 16/3 - 14/7/42. Appointed CO, Auckland Wing, Air Training Corp 15/7/42, appointed CO, Air Training Corp Auckland Wing 27/9/43, appointed Commandant Air Training Corps HQ, ATC Wellington 13/4/44; Transferred to Reserve Class B Section I 6/3/45. Ranks, etc, were Flight Sub Lt 30/4/16, F/L 1/10/17, to RAF as Captain 1/4/18, to NZAF (T) as Captain 14/6/23, to S/L 8/8/30. Re-employed as F/L (Honorary S/L) from 14/9/40 in A&SD Branch, to S?L 1/11/41, to Acting W/C 13/4/44, to W/C 6/3/45 (on transfer to Reserve). David D
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 1, 2018 9:43:24 GMT 12
Thanks David, my memory was correct. I wonder if he was the RNAS pilot who they called Old Timer when he told his stories in Contact magazine during WWII?
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Post by errolmartyn on Jan 1, 2018 11:02:15 GMT 12
Thanks David, my memory was correct. I wonder if he was the RNAS pilot who they called Old Timer when he told his stories in Contact magazine during WWII? 'Old Timer' was Les Brake. A lengthy account of Shorty Fowler's WWI days that I contributed to featured in an issue of the Cross & Cockade Journal a few years ago. Errol
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 1, 2018 11:40:25 GMT 12
Thanks Errol.
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