Lieutenant Francis Herbert Airey Sowerby, 3rd Batt. Durham Light Infantry, died of dysentery at Kroonstad, O.R.C. on April 21st, 1901. He was educated at Wellington (Kempthornes from 1888 - 90), and entered the 3rd Batt. Durham Light Infantry in September 1898, being promoted to Lieutenant December 1900. He volunteered for active service and accompanied his battalion to South Africa in Feb. 1900, and is reported to have served with distinction.
Source: The Last Post by Mildred Dooner, 1903.

He is remembered in Durham on D47.001 and in Barnard Castle on B135.03