Thomas Bowler (RAF officer), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British Royal Air Force officer
Date of Birth: 01-Mar-1895
Date of Death: 05-Sep-1974
Profession: military personnel
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
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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