Lieutenant Colonel Lionel Arthur Bosanquet

Army Number : n/a

Battalion : 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born 29th January 1862 at Southgate, Hertfordshire. Son of the Arthur Bosanquet (O.H.), J.P., I.C.S.,  and Isabella Matilda Bosanquet of
Cleddon Hall, Monmouth. Husband of Alice Emily Bosanquet, of 46, Drayton Gardens, London. Educated at Harrow School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst. 
He was gazetted Lieutenant to the Sherwood Foresters 10th March  1883,
was promoted Captain in 8th May 1892, and Major in 9th May 1903. He served in theTirah Campaign in India 1897-8, and took part in the operations of the Bazar Valley, in the action of Dargai and in the capture of Arhanga and Sanpagha
Passes, receiving the medal with two clasps.

He retired in 1911. Rejoining his regiment on the outbreak of the War, he sailed for the Dardanelles in June 1915, as Colonel of the 9th Battalion which he had himself trained. He landed on August 6th and was in action on the 9th where he was wounded in the attack at Ismail Oglu Tepe, (Chocolate Hill), Gallipoli, Turkey.

He was killed, it is believed by machine-gun fire, on
August 21st, 1915, in “Dead Man’s Gully,” near Chocolate Hill, while
leading his Regiment against a Turkish redoubt,  He was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch for ” gallant and distinguished service in the field.”

Commemorated : Helles Memorial, Turkey. Panel 150 to 152.

Lieutenant Colonel Lionel Arthur Bosanquet is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Harrow School War Memorial, Harrow, Essex.