Lieutenant Charles Lindsay Claude Bowes-Lyon, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Son of the Hon. Francis and Lady Anne LindsayBowes-Lyon, of Ridley Hall, Bardon Mill, Northumberland.
Memorial only.
See Find a Grave Memorial #12081841 for burial location.
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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
BOWES LYON, CHARLES LINDSAY CLAUDE, Lieutenant, 3rd, attached 1st. Battalion, The Black Watch, eldest son of the Hon. Francis Bowes Lyon, formerly Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 5th Battalion 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; educated 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 Battalion (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 Battalion was mobilized on the outbreak of war. He was attached to the 1st Battalion 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; unmarried. 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: "Captain ---- 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."
Son of the Hon. Francis and Lady Anne LindsayBowes-Lyon, of Ridley Hall, Bardon Mill, Northumberland.
Memorial only.
See Find a Grave Memorial #12081841 for burial location.
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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
BOWES LYON, CHARLES LINDSAY CLAUDE, Lieutenant, 3rd, attached 1st. Battalion, The Black Watch, eldest son of the Hon. Francis Bowes Lyon, formerly Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 5th Battalion 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; educated 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 Battalion (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 Battalion was mobilized on the outbreak of war. He was attached to the 1st Battalion 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; unmarried. 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: "Captain ---- 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."
Lieutenant Charles Lindsay Claude Bowes-Lyon, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Son of the Hon. Francis and Lady Anne LindsayBowes-Lyon, of Ridley Hall, Bardon Mill, Northumberland.
Memorial only.
See Find a Grave Memorial #12081841 for burial location.
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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
BOWES LYON, CHARLES LINDSAY CLAUDE, Lieutenant, 3rd, attached 1st. Battalion, The Black Watch, eldest son of the Hon. Francis Bowes Lyon, formerly Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 5th Battalion 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; educated 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 Battalion (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 Battalion was mobilized on the outbreak of war. He was attached to the 1st Battalion 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; unmarried. 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: "Captain ---- 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."
Son of the Hon. Francis and Lady Anne LindsayBowes-Lyon, of Ridley Hall, Bardon Mill, Northumberland.
Memorial only.
See Find a Grave Memorial #12081841 for burial location.
~~~~~~~~~~
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
BOWES LYON, CHARLES LINDSAY CLAUDE, Lieutenant, 3rd, attached 1st. Battalion, The Black Watch, eldest son of the Hon. Francis Bowes Lyon, formerly Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 5th Battalion 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; educated 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 Battalion (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 Battalion was mobilized on the outbreak of war. He was attached to the 1st Battalion 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; unmarried. 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: "Captain ---- 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."
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The cross was removed from Boezinge churchyard near Ypres. Memorialized with Captain Edward Frederick Maltby Urquhart.
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