Umpiring in the 1946–47 Ashes series out. One English pressman wrote that this was Bodyline, to the anger of Vic Richardson, Alan Kippax and Clarrie Grimmett who had seen the real thing. Clif Cary wrote that "the placements were sufficient to cause the batsmen worry, although they did not justify one journalist describing the attack as "bodyline" to lend colour and expression to his cable". The England bowler Bill Voce and the reporter Bill Bowes did not comment on the matter, but Harold Larwood said that Bodyline was less dangerous as the batsman knew what to expect - bouncers on the leg-stump - but here they
Holden Bowler like about him, I made up." At the beginning of World War II Bowler left singing and enlisted in the Army, where he was commissioned as a second lieutenant. Bowler was promoted to the rank of captain before the D-Day landings and served in the section responsible for coordinating the logistics of the attack. After D-Day, he "oversaw all German and Italian Prisoners of War brought to England." While in England, he also met Ann Marion Childs, whom he married in 1945; the two went on to have four children. After the war, Bowler stayed in the United States Army