On Tower Hill Memorial is the name of Mate Ernest Lawrence Burwood Bowles serving on S.S. Cedarwood (Middlesbrough) who died 12/02/1916.

The husband of Alice Rachel Bowles, of 65, Cromwell Road, South Bank, Yorks. He was born at Ipswich.

In Hartlepool North Cemetery is a headstone which reads:

Mary
Dear wife of
W.B. Bowles
Died July 13th 1897
Aged 50 years
The salvation of the world
Is in its nameless saints

Arthur Sydney
Her third son
Died Nov.8th, 1892, aged 23 years.

William Burwood Bowles
A most loving father
Died June 8th 1915
At Stockton on Tees
Aged 75 years.

. . . . . are in his hands.
Ernest Laurence Burwood
Their eldest son
Aged 50 years
Who lost his life Feb. 12th 1916
In the mining of the S.S. Cedarwood
During the Great War
(the rest is hidden under foliage)

SS Cedarwood ship number 125143, of 654 tons was mined 2.5 miles east of Aldborough Napes with the loss of 6 lives. It was on route from Middlesbrough to Fecamp with a cargo of pig iron. The operator was the Meteor SS. Co., Ltd. (R. A. Constantine & T. H. Donking), Middlesbrough, and the builder in 1907 was W. Harkess & Son, Ltd., Middlesbrough.

The mines were laid by the U Boat UC 4 commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Friedrich Moecke

Ernest Lawrence Burwood Bowles is remembered in our List of Ships’ Crews.