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Fergus Bowes-Lyon. 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.
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. The Queen spoke of detective work to track down his suspected mass grave in 2011 as she met Ministry of Defence officials who help families find the bodies of their loved ones.
Fergus Bowes-Lyon. Last week, Fergus Bowes-Lyon, son of the 14 th Earl of Strathmore, elder brother to the Queen Mother and uncle to Queen Elizabeth II, was added to our Roll of Honour. Killed amongst the 20,000 men who fell at the Battle of Loos in 1915, his remains were not found until 2011; nearly a century after his death.
Captain The Hon. Fergus Bowes-Lyon. 728198. View record on CWGC. Fergus Bowes-Lyon was born on 18 April 1889 at Forbes House, Ham, Surrey, the son of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck. Fergus was one of ten children.
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.
Fergus died in France during the Battle of Loos in September 1915 and, until now, had been commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on the Loos Memorial as he had no known grave. His grandson wrote to the Commission in November 2011 after having visited Quarry Cemetery, Vermelles.
