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Photos and biographical information on Captain Bowes-Wilson are below.
Captain George Hutton BOWES-WILSON.
4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Thomas Bowes-Wilson, of Enterpen
Hall, Hutton Rudby, Yorks; husband of N. Dulcie Bowes-Wilson, of 30, John
Street, Bedford Row, London. Killed 17 June 1915.
Buried VLAMERTINGHE MILITARY CEMETERY.
Select the above image for a photo of Officers of the 4th Battalion pre-war,
which opens in a new window
Select the above image for a photo of Officers of the 4th Battalion in 1915,
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The above photo is of a painting of George Hutton Bowes-Wilson by Frank Kewley, and hangs in the Town Hall, Middlesbrough. George Hutton Bowes-Wilson was a Councillor for Middlesbrough before the First World War. We are very grateful to Bolckow for the photo of the painting.
The following biographical notes on George Hutton Bowes-Wilson are taken
from Robert Coulson's biographies
of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"George Bowes-Wilson was born in Newcastle on April 26th 1877.
He was educated at Clifton College and New College at Oxford and then followed
a legal career in Middlesbrough.
George Bowes-Wilson was a Middlesbrough Councillor and pre-war territorial
soldier with the 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. He sailed with the
battalion to France, landing in Boulogne on April 18th 1915. They were soon
into the bitter fighting of the 2nd Battle of Ypres around the village of
St Julien in late April. He was commended for his work in late May when the
battalion came under a heavy gas attack on the Menin Road at Hooge.
“Captain Bowes-Wilson though he did not go to hospital was in a terrible
state”.
Captain George Hutton Bowes-Wilson was killed by a German sniper some two
weeks later on June 17th 1915, aged 38, in Sanctuary Wood near Hooge.
A friend of Gertrude Bell wrote in a letter to her father Sir Hugh Bell of
Captain Bowes-Wilson;-
“I have had word from Maurice tonight, he says that George Bowes-Wilson
is killed, a most gallant and competent officer”.
Captain Bowes-Wilson is also remembered on Middlesbrough War Memorial at Albert
Park and his name was also listed on a memorial tablet in the reading room
of the Cleveland Club in Middlesbrough.
He was the son of Thomas and Maria Bowes-Wilson of Enterpen Hall, Hutton Rudby
near Middlesbrough and husband of Dulcie Bowes-Wilson of Bedford Row in London.
His brother Lt Col John Hutton Bowes-Wilson was killed in 1917 with the West
Riding Regiment."
Martin Eggermont <martin.eggermont@ntlworld.com> has researched
the life of George Hutton Bowes-Wilson who was a member of the Freemasons
(Ferrum Lodge 1848, Middlesbrough). Members of the same Lodge included the
following Officers of the 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment;-
2nd Lieut Leonard Percy I’Anson (kia 25 April 1915)
Major Harry Legh de Legh, and
Major Henry Granville Scott Snr.
By selecting the link below Martin Eggermont's detailed biographical information is shown as a PDF file;-
Captain
George Hutton BOWES-WILSON
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