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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.
- 1914–1915
- British Army
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.
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.
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.
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.
Michael Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 18th and 5th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, DL (7 June 1957 – 27 February 2016), styled Lord Glamis between 1972 and 1987, was a British politician and soldier, and a first cousin, once removed, of Queen Elizabeth II. He was usually known to family and friends as Mikey Strathmore.
Fergus was buried near where he died on the Loos battlefield in a disused quarry near the village of Vermelles. Unfortunately, the site suffered extensive shell damage during later fighting and his grave was lost, so after the war his name was recorded on the Loos Memorial to the missing.
