Cement House Cemetery, Langemark-Poelkapelle,Belgium

Memorial in St. Joseph's Church, Guernsey

Son of Walter Baird Bowden Smith and Julia Wiggett Bowden Smith, of Vernalls, Lyndhurst, Hants.

Died of wounds, aged 33 years.

Captain Walter Adrian Carnegie Bowden-Smith
4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
28/08/1914

"Received his first Commission in 1900. He was gazetted Lieutenant in 1904, and Captain in 1909. He saw service in Tibet, 1904-4, when he was wounded. He was in action at Niani, and received a medal with clasp.

(Official). - Wounded at Mons, August 23rd. Died of wounds at Convent of St. Joseph, Maisieres, Belgium, August 28th. Aged 32 years, 11 months."

Extract from The Elizabethan, 1914.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record