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Lt Col Hugh Bowes
British Army 18th Btn Durham Light Infantry
from:Old Elvet, Durham
On August 8th, Lieutenant Colonel R E Cheyne, 29th B Lancers took over from Lieutenant Colonel H Bowes who returned to England.' [https://community.dur.ac.uk/4schools.resources/FWW2/somme4trans.htm]
Hugh Bowes is recorded as "Bowes, H. Lt. Col. Elmhurst, Commanding 18th DLI" in the Roll of Honour held in Darlington Library, believed to have been complied by the Town Council in the 1920s.