Name
Alexander White-Bowman
28 Nov 1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
East Yorkshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
COMBLES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
I. E. 31.
France
Headstone Inscription
THE DAY THOU GAVEST LORD IS ENDED
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham
Pre War
Alexander White-Bowman was born in the Hull area of Yorkshire on 28 Nov 1894, he was the son of Alexander White Bowman (Builder & Contractor)and Florence Annie (nee Hunter).
He attended Aldenham School where
he was member the Officer Training Corps for 4 years.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 11 Sep 1914 in Public Schools Battalion, Middlesex Regiment but was discharged 23 Nov presumably because he had been selected for Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned as Second Lieutenant 14 Sep 1915.
At some time he was noted as being attached to Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) from East Yorkshire Regiment and deployed to France on 25 Aug 1916. Alexander was killed in action on 25 Sep 1916 between Flers and Guedecourt on the Somme Battlefield.
His remains were later exhumed from Guedecourt and interred in Combles Communal Cemetery Extension where he lies with other East Yorkshire comrades.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Tony James
