Thom's Irish Who's Who/Bowen, Major Francis Osborne

BOWEN, Major Francis Osborne, D.S.O. (1917); Major, 2nd Royal Irish Regiment; served in S. African War, 1899-1902, present at actions of Belfast, Lydenburg, and operations in Transvaal (Queen's medal with three clasps); European War, 1914-17 (despatches); was Adj. 6th Batt. W. Yorkshire Regt., 1906-10; son of the late F. C. Bowen, of Hollymount, Co. Mayo; b. 1877; m. 1899, Marguerita Blanche May, dau. of Surg.Major John Power Oliver, Indian Medical Service. Army and Navy Club, London.