Captain James Seymour Strachan Mowbray

Regiment: Black Watch
Panel reference: Panel 78 to 83.
Date published: 26/11/1915
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 25/09/1915
Cemetery: Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Information: Captain James Seymour Strachan Mowbray, Black Watch, of Killeany, Mountrath, was killed in action in France early in September last. He was the eldest son of the late Mr. Seymour Mowbray, of Killeany, and was educated at Leamington. He adopted the profession of Engineering and entered the L.N.W. Railway Co.'s Works at Crewe, where he was a member of the Volunteer (Railway) Battalion of the Royal Engineers. He was in the service of the Land Commission at the outbreak of the war, but volunteered for active service and obtained a commission in the Black Watch, with which regiment his family had been honourably associated. Captain Mowbray was the fourth of his family killed in action in the present war, and leaves a widow and daughter to mourn his loss. He was well known as a keen rider to hounds in King's and Queen's Counties and Kilkenny. He had been at the front since April.