Photo : Bacon and Son

Photo: James Pasby

Photo : K. Buckland

Rev. David Youngson has submitted the following:

Captain George Hutton BOWES-WILSON
Yorkshire Regiment 4th Battalion
Formerly 1st Volunteer Battalion Durham Light Infantry

The son of Thomas and Maria Bowes-Wilson of Enterpen Hall, Hutton Rugby, North Yorkshire he was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on the 26th April 1877. Educated at Clifton College he studied at New College, Oxford. He was Admitted a Solicitor 1902 and practiced at 28 Albert Road, Middlesbrough. Elected a Councillor for Middlesbrough Exchange Ward from 1906. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 12th December 1905, 1st Volunteer Regiment, Durham Light Infantry; Lieutenant 26th April 1907; appointed to The 4th Battalion Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment and promoted Captain 7th March 1913. He was a Freemason and a Member of Ferrum Lodge No 1848, Middlesbrough. He was killed in action by a sniper in Sanctuary Wood, Ypres Salient, Belgium on the 17th June 1915 aged 38. The husband of Nora Dulcie Bowes-Wilson (nee Linney) of 30 John Street, Bedford Row, London who he married on the 29th September 1908 at St Peters Church, Harrogate. He is buried in Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, West Vlaanderen, Belgium, Grave Reference II.A.9. His name appears on the Middlesbrough War Memorial, Albert Park and on a Memorial in the reading room of the Cleveland Club, Middlesbrough and on a brass plaque in the South Aisle of All Saints Church, Hutton Rugby.

An oil painting portrait by Frank Kewley was commissioned by the Middlesbrough Corporation in 1920.

His younger brother Lt Col John Hutton Bowes-Wilson, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment) was killed in action in the Ypres Salient on the 7th June 1917.

1/4th Battalion Yorkshire Battalion War Diary
The Yorkshire Regiment
Masonic Roll of Honour
The CWGC entry for Captain Bowes-Wilson