Memorial Details

Plaque Bowes-Lyon 1914 St. Cuthbert

B21.03

BELTINGHAM

NY 790640

St. Cuthbert's Church, on north wall.

1914-18

Plaque 4 feet at its highest point x 4 feet wide.
The central panel has been devised to have sunken panels in which the lettering is raised in half relief using Roman capitals. At the top is a large ornamental cross in half relief. At bottom left is a half relief of St. George, also two small shields, bearing heraldry. These are on either side of a scroll in half relief which contains the Latin motto. "In Te Domino Speravi" ("In Thee, O God, I will put my Trust").

Bronze in marble surround.

See above.

1. BOWES LYON, Charles Lindsay Claude

Lieut., 3rd, attd. 1st Battn., The Black Watch, eldest son of the Hon. Francis Bowes Lyon, formerly Lieut.-Col. commanding 5th Battn. Black Watch, by his wife, Lady Anne, daughter of Alexander, 25th Earl of Crawford, and grandson of Claude, 13th Earl of Strathmore; born 15 Sept. 1885; educ. Eton, studied at the Royal College of Science, Newcastle, for electrical engineering, Member of the Inst. C.E. He joined the Forfarshire and Kincardine Militia Artillery in April, 1906, and in 1910 was gazetted to the 3rd Battn. (Special Reserve) of the Black Watch. In 1911, obtaining an engineering appointment in India, he spent two and a half years at Bombay, and on his return home with a friend via Japan and Canada in May, 1914, was one of the few survivors in the terrible disaster and loss of the Empress of Ireland liner on the St. Lawrence. Shortly afterwards, his battn. was mobilised on the outbreak of war. He was attd. to the 1st Battn. of the Black Watch in the First Army Corps, and joined the Expeditionary Force in France early in Sept.; served through the memorable battles of the Marne and Aisne, and the fierce struggles in the first battles round Ypres. He was twice slightly wounded, and after three days' incessant fighting from 20 Oct. was killed in action on 23 Oct. at Pilken, during an attack to recover the lost trenches. He was buried in the churchyard at Boesinghe; unm. A keen cricketer and sportsman, his scientific career had been of brilliant promise, and his attractive disposition had endeared him to a wide circle of friends. A well-known chaplain with the Expeditionary Force wrote: "Capt. ---- spoke most splendidly of B.L. and his example, and said, amongst other things, that he was one of the finest characters he had ever met."

2. Lieut. Bowes Lyon is remembered on B103.01, H5.06 and H41.01

Photos: J. Brown; Tony Harding

Northumberland Record Office Copy of Order of Dedication Service (for stained glass window) EP 159/26

de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour: part one, page 232 contains the information in Note 1 above.

Sources of quotations
“He asked life of thee . . .” Psalm 21 v 4
“In te domine spero” Psalm 7 v 1; 11 v 1

Philip Thirkell; George and Janet Brown; Tony Harding

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