Second World War casualties Army Rifle Association Bronze Shooting Medal, awarded to Private T. Flowitt, 1st Battalion, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. From Doncaster and later Marlow, Buckinghamshire, he was a veteran of the Arab Rebellion in Palestine, and saw service out with the British Expeditionary Force in France during the Phoney War period as part of the 5th Infantry Brigade in the 5th Division. With the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, he then fought during the retreat to Dunkirk and it is assumed that he was badly wounded, and having been then captured, he died as a prisoner of war on 10 June 1940, being buried in Maastricht.
Army Rifle Association Bronze Shooting Medal, reverse engraved to: ’2928123 PTE. T. FLOWITT’.
Condition: lightly polished, Very Fine.
Thomas Edgar Flowitt was born in 1911 in Doncaster, and prior to the outbreak of the Second World War had enlisted into the British Army seeing service as a Private (No.2928123) with the 1st Battalion, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, and then present as an Acting Corporal out in Palestine during the Arab Rebellion. Flowitt the went on to see service during the war as a Corporal, being present out in France with the British Expeditionary Force from September 1939, where his battalion formed part of the 5th Infantry Brigade in the 5th Division. During a period of home leave he got married to Ada Howse in Marlow in Buckinghamshire in 1940, but with the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, fought during the retreat to Dunkirk. It is assumed that he was badly wounded, and having been then captured, he died as a prisoner of war on 10 June 1940, being buried in Maastricht General Cemetery.
