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Identity
Person No.
17755
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
George
Initials
G
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
43
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,778
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action. On the 12th October 1916, the 2nd and 4th S.A.I. attacked Snag and Tail Trenches. The assault died away because of machine guns nests, placed well back in prepared positions, which caught the attacking waves at long range
Military Service
Branch
Army
Rank
Captain
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Awards
United Kingdom
Notes

Son of Robert and Elisabeth Irvine Mowat (nee Hunter), of Glasgow, Scotland. Attended University of Glasgow. From The Scotsman 21 October 1916 - Captain George Mowat, South African Contingent, was a son of Robert Mowat, JP, 42 Buchanan Drive, Cambuslang. He was educated at Garnethill School, Glasgow, and graduated MB, CH at Glasgow University. On the outbreak of the Boer War he was accepted for and was twice mentioned in dispatches. At the conclusion of the war, he returned to Cambuslang, and later settled in Johannesburg as a medical practitioner. On the outbreak of the present war he volunteered for combatant service, and took part in the campaign in German South-West Africa. He was afterwards gazette Captain. He was 43 and unmarried.

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