World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
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Thomas Bowey (N.B. Spelt Bowie on the Memorial)
Forename(s):
Thomas
Surname:
Bowey
(N.B. Spelt 'Bowie' on the Memorial)
Initial(s):
T
Service Number:
447016
Rank:
Private
Regiment:
Canadian Expeditionary Force, 9th Battalion
Died:
20/11/1915
Aged:
30
Buried:
Felton (St Michael) Churchyard, Northumberland
Service History:
Enlisted at Calgary, Canada on 28 May 1915.
Despite being passed fit to serve, Bowie suffered from pleurisy before he sailed from Canada with his unit. They arrived in England, to begin training, on 20 September 1915.
At the beginning of November following Dixon suffered an attack of typhoid complicated by pneumonia. He died at the Military Hospital at Shorncliffe, Cheriton, Kent only hours before his sister arrived to visit him.
(Source: 'Felton War Memorial: The Men behind the names'; Eleanor George [formerly Hall]; 2009; pp. 25-26)
Background:
Born on 28 September 1885, the second of three children of Robert Bowey (a Stone Mason), by his second wife Annie Bowey (née Hogg), of The Mills, West Thirston, Felton, Northumberland.
Bowey began his working life as a Carter at Thirston Flour Mill.
Emigrated to Quebec, Canada in May 1911. He returned to the UK briefly in 1913 to visit his family.
Dixon was buried at Felton, being accorded full military honours including a firing party of 12, buglers & 6 underbearers sent from Alnwick Camp.
(Source: 'Felton War Memorial: The Men behind the names'; Eleanor George [formerly Hall]; 2009; pp. 25-26)
Local Memorial:
Felton St Michael Cemetery.
Felton War Memorial incorporating Acton, Eshott, Swarland & Thirston