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Captain The Hon. Fergus Bowes-Lyon (18 April 1889 – 27 September 1915) was a British officer and older brother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, who later became the queen consort of King George VI. Fergus Bowes-Lyon was killed during World War I. He was a maternal uncle of Elizabeth II.
- 1914–1915
- British Army
Fergus Bowes-Lyon (1889–1915) noted golfer killed in the First World War, brother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon; 1900–2002), Queen of the United Kingdom as the wife of George VI , and mother of Elizabeth II .
Fergus, Captain in the Black Watch, died at the age of 26 leading an attack on the heavily fortified German lines at Hohenzollern Redoubt. His leg was blown off and he was hit by multiple bullets in his chest and shoulder.
2011 - 2015. The Queen has spoken for the first time of her family's painful search for the missing body of her heroic uncle who was killed in the First World War. Remains of Captain Fergus Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother's brother, have never been recovered since he died at the Battle of Loos in northern France in 1915.
Captain The Hon. Fergus Bowes-Lyon (copyright unknown). On 19 August 1914, he joined the 8th Battalion, Black Watch as a lieutenant. On 17 September, he married Lady Christian Norah Dawson-Damer and was promoted to temporary captain on 17 November that same year.
death Killed in Action struck by shrapnel from an exploding shell Loos France Source:6643006 Source:8540743 27th September 1915. burial Quarry Cemetery, Vermelles CWGC Cemetery/Memorial France Source:7966297. sibling Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Windsor Bowes Lyon Source:8567339. Key to icons.
27 September 1915 : Captain Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 8th Black Watch. A Great Uncle of King Charles III. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has changed the commemoration for Captain Fergus Bowes-Lyon, an uncle of the late Queen Elizabeth II. Fergus died in France during the Battle of Loos in September 1915 and, until now, had been commemorated by ...
