Private George William Bowley

Army Number: 266954

Battalion: 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Gotham, Nottinghamshire. Son of Nathan and Elizabeth Bowley, of  Church Square, Gotham. He was a waggoner in a plaster mine prior to enlisting at West Bridgford, Nottingham. He was killed in action, 26th September 1917, in the attack at Wieltje, near Ypres, Belgium. 

Commemorated : Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A.

Private George William Bowley is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Lawrence’s Church War Memorial, Gotham, Nottinghamshire. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.