Name
Norris Edward Fowler
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/09/1917
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
266727
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 153.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford,
Not on the Essendon memorials,
Commemorated on his Parents Headstone at Cheshunt Cemetery, Cheshunt, Herts.
Pre War
He was born on the 8th September 1897, in Essendon, Herts. Son of Edward and Agnes Fowler. Baptised on the 3rd October 1897, in Essendon, Herts.
Norris was one of 4 children. He was a resident of Waltham Abbey, Essex. The 1901 census shows Norris aged 3 living with his Parents, Brother and Sister at 9 Franchise Place, Waltham Abbey, Essex and the 1911 census shows Norris aged 13 living with his widowed Mother, 2 Brothers and Sister, at 9 Franchise Place, Waltham Abbey, Essex.
Wartime Service
Norris enlisted at Waltham Cross, Herts, into the 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment, with the service number 266727.
He was Killed in Action on 23rd September 1917. He has no Known Grave.
Additional Information
His personal inscription on the headstone reads: “Son of Mrs A. H. Fowler of 9 Paradise Row, Waltham Abbey, Essex”.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Stuart Osborne
