[8] Records are then absent until he retires from the army with the rank of major – a title he used for the rest of his life – in 1919 after the end of the First World War.
[12] In 1913 his one first-class innings of the season, in the match between the Army and the Royal Navy, produced a score of 113 which would remain his highest.
[14] Leicestershire needed Fowke because of a problem with the captaincy: Aubrey Sharp had been chosen as captain in 1921 and re-appointed for 1922, but the demands of his career as a solicitor meant that he could appear in no more than five games; Fowke was initially picked as a stand-in and as the only available amateur, but then took over the captaincy officially when it became plain that Sharp was not able to resume.
[15] Fowke was one of those over-40s, but was in fact only at the start of his cricket career, and he remained as Leicestershire's captain for the next five seasons, overseeing a transition in the team that saw the retirement of older players such as John King, Samuel Coe and Arthur Mounteney and the introduction of the nucleus of the team of the 1930s with Les Berry, Norman Armstrong, Haydon Smith and Alan Shipman.
[16] The transition in Leicestershire cricket during the years of Fowke's captaincy was not just in terms of playing personnel; the club, perennially one of the more precarious in terms of organisation and finances, put itself on a more secure footing in the mid-1920s, recruiting Ernie Hayes as its first professional coach, entering a second eleven in the Minor Counties Championship and expanding membership.