“THIS
MEMORIAL STONE
IS ERECTED
IN REVERENT
REMEMBRANCE OF
CAPTAIN ALAN FOWLER.
YOUNGER SON OF
SIR JOHN ARTHUR FLOWER
2ND BARONET OF BRAEMORE.

CAPTAIN ALAN FOWLER
WAS BORN AT INVERBROOM, LOCHBROOM
ON 27TH FEB. 1887, AND AFTER 7 YEARS SERVICE
WITH HIS REGIMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA,
CHINA AND INDIA, HE WAS KILLED IN THE
28TH YEAR OF HIS AGE, ON THE 28TH APRIL 1915,
WHILE COMMANDING A COMPANY OF HIS
REGIMENT, QUEEN’S OWN CAMERON HIGHRS
WHEN ENGAGED IN THE SUCCESSFUL DEFENCE
OF THE FRONT TRENCH OF HILL 60,
NEAR YPRES, IN FLANDERS.
AFTER 5 DAYS OF UNCEASING STRUGGLE
IN DEFENCE OF THIS
DIFFICULT AND IMPORTANT POSITION,
CAPTAIN ALAN FOWLER,
LIEUT. DUNCAN GRANT, OF FORT-WILLIAM,
AND 8 MEN OF THE BATTALION MET THEIR DEATH
THROUGH THE BURSTING OF A MINENWERFER
BOMB, DISCHARGED FROM THE GERMAN LINES.
CAPT. ALEXANDER MACDUFF, YR OF BONHARD, PERTHSHIRE
BEST MAN AT CAPTAIN ALAN FOWLER’S, WEDDING
FELL ON HILL 60 A FEW DAYS PREVIOUSLY.
“THEY WERE STAUNCH TO THE END
AGAINST ODDS UNCOUNTED,
THEY FELL WITH THEIR FACES TO THE FOE.”

FROM HIS EARLIEST CHILDHOOD ALAN FOWLER
WAS DISTINGUISHED FOR QUALITIES OF PLUCK AND COURAGE.
A CHAMPION BOXER AT HARROW, A LEADING FOOTBALL PLAYER,
A GOOD CRICKETER, AND ONE OF THE MOST EXPERT RIFLE SHOTS
IN INDIA, HE ORGANISED AND TOOK A LEADING PART IN ALL
REGIMENTAL COMPETITIONS, SPORTS AND ATHLETIC EXERCISES.

OF MODEST AND RETIRING DEMEANOUR, HIS CONVERSATION SHREWD
AN ORIGINAL MIND, A QUICK INTELLIGENCE AND A REFLECTIVE BRAIN
HE WAS THE SOUL OF HONOUR
AND WAS AS POPULAR WITH HIS FELLOW OFFICERS, AS HE WAS BELOVED
BY HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS. THE HIGHEST TRIBUTES TO HIS WORTH
WERE RECEIVED FROM HIS SUPERIOR OFFICERS AND THE CHAPLAIN OF HIS REGIMENT.

THE MEN WHO SERVED AT YPRES
SAVED THE BRITISH EMPIRE.”