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Mar 01, 1895 Died on 05 Sep 1974 (aged 79)

British Royal Air Force officer

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About Thomas Bowler Raf Officer

  • Air-Vice Marshal Thomas Geoffrey Bowler (1 March 1895 – 5 September 1974) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.Bowler was educated at Bloxham School in Oxfordshire.
  • He joined the British Army at the outbreak of the First World War, commissioning into the Dorset Regiment.
  • He was promoted to captain on 23 August 1915, and served in the Gallipoli Campaign.
  • He was mentioned in dispatches in 1916.
  • In 1917, he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps.
  • Bowler was made Flight Lieutenant (Aeroplane Branch) in 1919 in the Royal Air Force and afterwards held numerous RAF appointments in England and the Middle East.
  • He started his service in the Second World War as a wing commander, ending the war as an air commodore.
  • He was promoted to air-vice marshal in 1947.
  • Bowler was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 7 June 1951, having retired from the Royal Air Force two months earlier.

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