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Bloxam, Robert Basil Reginald, son of Robert Henry Raynsford Bloxam, of Ryde, I. O. W., by Lily, daughter of James Castle Cass, of Barnsley, Yorks.; b. Sept. 11. 1896; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (A); left July 1913; technical author (naval ordnance) with Vickers, Ltd., Naval Construction Works, Barrow-in-Furness; m. Aug. 28, 1928, Elizabeth Jean, daughter of Alfred Bird, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Boot, William Henry Gilbert, son of Capt. Henry Percy Boot RFC, aeronautical engineer, and Eveline Hilda, d. of William Radford of Warwick; b. 30 July 1911; adm. Sept. 1924 (A); left Mar. 1926; staff of Savoy Hotel 1926-61; RASC 1945 (Capt.); re-employed at Claridges 1972-8; d. 13 Feb. 1992.

Bowen, Geoffrey Adcock, brother of Sir John Poland Bowen (q.v.); b. Sept. 29, 1889, adm. Sept. 25, 1902 (A); left July 1905; d. at Alexandria, Egypt, Sept. 29, 1912.

Bowen, Ivor Ian, son of Ivor Bowen KC, County Court Judge, and Edith May, d. of Robert Dummett of Highgate; b. 3 Dec. 1908; adm. Sept. 1922 (A); left 1927; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1927, Gladstone Memorial Prize 1929, Eldon Law Schol. 1930, BA (1st class hons Modern History), MA 1935; Fellow of All Souls' Coll. 1930-7, 1968; lecturer in Economics BNC 1931-40; Chief Statistical Officer, Min. of Works 1940-5; lecturer Hertford Coll. Oxf. 1946; Prof. of Econom­ics and Commerce Univ. Coll. Hull 1947-58; Prof. of Economics Univ. of W. Australia 1958- 73, Emeritus 1974; author of Cobden (Great Lives Series) 1934, Britain's Industrial Survival 1947, Acceptable Inequalities 1970, Economics and Demography 1976; editor Finance and Development (World Bank and IMF) 1974-7; m. 1st 1 June 1935 Erica Baillie; 2nd 17 Sept. 1952 Isobel Margaret, d. of James Lindsay Salmond Smith of Edinburgh; d. in Andorra 20 Nov. 1984.

Bowen, John Anthony Poland, son of Sir John Poland Bowen (qv); b. 25 July 1921; adm. May 1935 (A); left July 1938; Westminster Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1944; RNVR 1944-5 (Surg. Lieut.); in gen. med. practice at Worcester Park, Surrey; m. 29 July 1944 Mary Elizabeth, d. of Capt. Thomas Horrabin Coop of New Malden, Surrey; d. 2006

Bowen, Sir John Poland, son of John Bowen, A. M. l. C. E., of Reading, Berks, Borough Engineer, by Laura Belle, daughter of Frederick Poland Adcock, solicitor, of Cambridge; b. Sept. 15, 1886; adm. Sept. 27, 1900 (A); left Dec. 1903; London Univ.; B.Sc. (Engineering) 1908; M.I.C.E.; served in Great War I 1914-8; Capt. No. 4 Electric Light Co. Kent Fortress Engineers R.E. (T. F.) June 1, 1916; Engineer-in-Chief at Trinity House Oct. 1924; retired 1951; C.B.E. 1945; knighted Feb. 24, 1952; m. Jan. 1, 1912, Constance Goodrich, daughter of Henry Goodrich Willett, Secretary, Trinity House; d. March 4, 1955.

Bowes-Scott, Harry George Rodney, only son of Henry Bowes-Scott, of Chelsea, by Alice Henrietta Rodney, eldest daughter of Sir Hugh Owen, Bart., by his second wife; b. May 15, 1887; adm. Sept. 26, 1901 (A); left Easter 1903; a civil engineer at Calcutta; 2nd Lieut. Infantry Reserve of Officers, Indian Army, Aug. 7, 1915; attached 29th Punjabis Sept. 4, 1915; killed in action at Soko River, German East Africa, March 21, 1916.

Bowling, Michael Campbell, son of Arthur Ernest Bowling MB BS MRCS LRCP, gen. med. practitioner, of Hampton Court, and Patricia Enid, d. of Ernest Edward Campbell of Armidale, NSW, Australia; b. 31 Mar. 1936; adm. Sept. 1951 (A); left July 1954; flying officer RAF 1954-7; Univ. of Lond. 1956-9, BComm; man. dir. of investment broking co; financial advisor Thomson’s Financial Planning, MCB Asset Management Ltd.; m. 1st, 1964 Joy Maureen Burville; 2nd, 19 July 1979 Rory Helen, d. of William Bradley Machin of York; 3rd, Rosemary Campbell Bowling; d. 8 Feb. 2011.

Bowman, Arthur William, son of the Rev. Arthur Gerald Bowman, Vicar of St. Mark's, Kensington; b. May 1, 1887; adm. from Eton Jan. 17, 1901 (A); left July 1905; New Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1905; joined the army in Aug. 1914; served on the western front as Corporal 23rd Batt. London Regt.; m.; d. a prisoner of war at Valenciennes April 12, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Brackenridge, Robert Robertson, son of James Hastie Brackenridge, textile manufacturer, of Wimbledon, and Margaret, d. of Robert Robertson of Larkhall, Lanarkshire; b. 23 Feb. 1918; adm. Sept. 1931 (A); left July 1935; RA 1940-4 (Capt.); d. of wounds in ltaly 30 May 1944.

Robert Robertson Brackenridge was born on the 23rd of February 1918 the younger son of James Hastie Brackenridge, a company director of a textile manufacturer, and Margaret (nee Robertson) Brackenridge of Lanark, Lanarkshire later of 9, Inner Park Road, Wimbledon Common in Surrey. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy where he was in Mackenzie House from 1929 to July 1931, and at Westminster School where he was up Ashburnham from September 1931 to July 1934. On leaving school he was employed as an apprentice surveyor with Knight, Frank & Rutley, Estate Agents.
He enlisted in the Royal Signals in November 1939 and attended an Officer Cadet Training Unit before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on the 26th of October 1940. He served with Heavy Anti Aircraft and Light Anti Aircraft units in the UK, North Africa and in Italy and was promoted to Captain on the 3rd of January 1944.
On the 19th of May 1944, 75 Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery left the area of Trocchio and crossed the Rapido River the next day where it arrived at its new positions at 5pm. On the 21st of May 1944, the Regiment spent its time in reconnaissance and in ranging its guns in preparation for a planned attack on the Hitler Line which was due to begin two days later. During the afternoon the enemy began shelling the Cassino area and a shell struck the truck in which Robert Brackenridge was travelling, severely damaging it and badly wounding him. He was taken to hospital where he died from his wounds nine days later.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Edinburgh Academy.
He is buried at Naples War Cemetery Plot I, Row O, Grave 16.