BOW William

  • First Name(s):
    William 
  • Surname:
    BOW
  • Service Number:
    4425
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    6th Dragoons (Inniskilling)
  • Unit:
    Attached C Squadron 1st Life Guards
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    30th October 1914
  • Age At Death:
    30
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium, Panel 5.
  • Place of Birth:
    Wrelesford, Bewdley, Worcestershire, resident Bewdley, enlisted Kidderminster
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of George and Emma Bow, 10 Welch Gate, Bewdley; husband of Maud A. Bow, 20 Pleasant Place, Dog Lane, Bewdley, Worcestershire

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BOW William Is Named On These Memorials

Further Information About BOW William

Additional information on the memorial: Pte. Innis. Dgs

Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for army casualties located in Worcester Cathedral.

The following is an extract from “Offence Renewed: October 30th 1914”, Ypres 1914 – Death of an Army, AH Farrar-Hockley Pan (1967) London

‘…The heavy shelling from 6.45 to 8AM which fell upon the Gheluvelt defences proceeded in parallel to the south where the 1st and 2nd Life Guards manned trenches with the machine gun of the Blues below the hillock of Zandvoorde.  The high explosive fell and blew and blasted amongst the squadrons, some of whose trenches were dug in echelon across the valley to the bank of the Ypres-Comines canal…Those on the slope of Zandevoorde hill faced west and the 400 men, the sum of two regiments, who had stood to at dawn had been reduced to 320 by eight o’clock.  The brigade commander then saw a mass of Germans approaching – two regiments of the 39th Division and three battalions of jager.  He decided that his regiments must be moved back before they were overwhelmed and sent these orders to the two commanding officers.  But the squadrons on the slopes and the section of machine guns could not get out; the enemy guns had already fired on the target of their trenches many times and the moment they were seen in the open, shrapnel was added to the high explosive.  They were annihilated.  The Life Guards belonged to the 7th Cavalry Brigade in the 3rd Cavalry Division”

William Bow has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial.

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Credits: Additional information transcribed and researched by Simon Fielding.