Clifford James FOWLER

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FOWLER, Clifford James

Service Number:	SX8914
Enlisted:	15 July 1940, Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/48th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Carawa, South Australia, 22 April 1901
Home Town:	Carawa, Streaky Bay, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Share farmer
Died:	Truck Accident, Dobie, Victoria, 8 April 1948, aged 46 years
Cemetery:	Cheltenham Cemetery, South Australia B9
Memorials:	Adelaide Executor Trustee Agency Company of SA WW1 Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Streaky Bay and District Roll of Honour WW2

World War 2 Service

15 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX8914, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion
15 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Private, SX8914, Adelaide, South Australia
16 Jul 1940:	Involvement Private, SX8914
24 Mar 1941:	Involvement Private, SX8914, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion, "Operation Lustre" Greece 1941
3 Sep 1941:	Imprisoned "Operation Lustre" Greece 1941
26 Sep 1945:	Discharged Private, SX8914, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion
26 Sep 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX8914, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by Robert Brereton

2/48th Battalion guarding Headquarters just prior to the Battle of Tobruk.

Left with the Old and the Bold to fight in Greece.

Captured, POW and taken to Stag, Germany, now Austria.

Escaped several times and went towards Italy where Italian families helped him. Went to England and then came back home to Australia.

He started driving trucks, carrying cars between Adelaide and Melbourne, and was killed in a truck accident near Dobie, Victoria along with his wife Elsie who was a passenger.

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