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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.
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 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.
By CWGC. 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.
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.
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 ...
1915. 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.
