Three: Captain G. Mowat, 4th South African Infantry, late Surgeon, attached Royal Army Medical Corps, who was killed in action on the Somme in October 1916

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (G. Mowat, Surgeon); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Civ. Surgn, G. Mowat); British War Medal 1914-18 (Capt. G. Mowat), generally good very fine (3)

George Mowat was mentioned in despatches for his services as a Civil Surgeon on attachment to the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Boer War (London Gazette 7 May 1901 refers), and would appear to have settled in South Africa at the end of hostilities - certainly official records record his mobilisation from the 2nd Pretoria Regiment in November 1914 and his entitlement to the 1914-15 Star.

Removing to an appointment in the 4th South African Infantry in September 1915, he was embarked for the U.K. in the same month, went out to France, and was killed in action while serving in ‘A’ Company near Le Sars on the Somme on 12 October 1916. The son of Robert and Elsie Mowat of Cambuslang, Scotland, he was 43 years of age and is buried in Warlencourt British Cemetery.