This memorial page is dedicated to Colin Fowkes, one of more than 725 war victims connected to the municipality of Deurne documented by Stichting Oorlogsslachtoffers. The municipality of Deurne and the surrounding villages of Liessel, Vlierden, Helenaveen, Neerkant and Zeilberg were liberated in the autumn of 1944 during heavy fighting. Victims fell on all sides: Allied soldiers from countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and New Zealand, and German soldiers.

But the archive covers more than just the combat victims on Deurne soil. Residents of Deurne who lost their lives elsewhere are also commemorated: civilians who were murdered in concentration camps, forced labourers who died in Germany, people who were executed or succumbed to the effects of persecution and oppression. In addition, residents of Deurne who entered German military service and were killed elsewhere are also included.

Stichting Oorlogsslachtoffers has been documenting the story of all these people since 1995, without distinction of nationality, side or background. The goal is to give every person a name and a face, and to keep their memory alive.

 

Name: Fowkes
First names: Colin
Nickname: –
Date of birth: –
Place of birth: Nottingham
Residence: in Hucknall
Rank / Occupation: Fusilier
Identity tag: 7045584
Unit: Royal Scots Fusiliers, 6th Bn.
Date of death: 5 November 1944
Place of death: Neerkant
Cause of death: –
Cemetery: Mierlo War Cemetery
Memorial site: Hucknall War Memorial (United Kingdom)


Additional information

Grave location: V. E. 7.

Aged 27. Son of John and Lucy Lovett Fowkes, of Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.

Colin Fowkes’s field grave was situated near Heitrak No. 32a in Neerkant.

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