Horace Fowkes

Name

Horace Fowkes

Conflict

Second World War

Date of Death / Age

19/04/1945
19

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Driver
T/255605
Royal Army Service Corps

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

HITCHIN CEMETERY
S.E. Extn. Grave 1030.
United Kingdom

Headstone Inscription

None

UK & Other Memorials

Hitchin Town Memorial, St. Mark’s Church Memorial, Hitchin, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin

Biography

He was born in Bedfordshire and at the time of his enlistment was resident in Hertfordshire being the landlord of the Cricketers Public House, Bedford Rd, Hitchin. He joined up in 1941 having served in the Home Guard. His Service Number was T/255605 and he went to Europe in September 1944. He became ill in January 1945 and was in hospital in both France and Belgium He was flown back from Belgium to the Morriston Emergency Hospital in Swansea where he died after an operation. 


He is buried in Grave 1030 south east extension at Hitchin Cemetery. 

Acknowledgments

David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Paul Johnson - local historian, Herts Pictorial dated 1st May 1945