In Bowes and Gilmonby Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave of:

28723 Private
T. Vickers
Lincolnshire Regiment
13th April 1917

William Kirby has submitted the following:-

Thomas Vickers was born in Cockermouth about 1870.

Thomas enlisted at Barnard Castle while living at Bowes and joined the Yorkshire Regiment with Service number 27883. He was later transferred to the 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment.

No medal card has been found for Thomas so perhaps he did not serve abroad.

Originally there was a private headstone erected on Thomas’ grave. The CWGC notes states that no relatives were known and the private headstone was fixed by friends from money left at his lodgings. In 1983 a CWGC headstone was erected on his grave.

Thomas Vickers is remembered at Bowes on B166.01 and B166.02