Captain W A C Bowden-Smith 4th London Regiment
CAPTAIN W, A. C. BOWDEN-SMITH 4TH BATTALION THE ROYAL FUSILIERS
(CITY OF LONDON REGIMENT)
WALTER ADRIAN CARNEGIE BOWDEN-SMITH was the only son of Walter Baird Bowden-Smith, of Vernalls, Lyndhurst, Hants, and of his wife, Julia Wiggett, daughter of W. C. Humphrys, J.P., High Sheriff of the County of Hants.
He entered the School in 1894. He was in the Shooting VIII in 1899, and, the same year, passed into the R.M.C., Sandhurst. He was gazetted to the Royal Fusiliers in 1900, and obtained his Com-pany in 1909. He took part in the Tibet Expedition of 1903-04, when he was wounded at Gyantse, and received the Medal with Clasp.
He was wounded on August 23rd, 1914, at the Battle of Mons, so severely that he was left as a prisoner in the hands of the Germans, and died of his wounds, on August 27th, or 28th, at the Convent of St. Joseph, Maisières, Belgium. Age 32.
Letters from brother Officers stated that “Captain Bowden-Smith was, very gallantly, bringing up reinforcements at Mons, under a fierce fire, when he was wounded in the right arm and abdomen. Out of the fifty men he brought up, all but three were shot down.”
Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1