Captain Francis Hugh BONHAM-CARTER
10th Heavy Battery, 20th Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery

Date of birth: 4th October 1879
Date of death: 31st October 1960

Died aged 81
Unknown
Francis Bonham-Carter was born at 25 Ashley Place, Westminster on the 4th of October 1879 the elder son of Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Bonham-Carter, Coldstream Guards, and Jane Margaret (nee MacDonald) Bonham-Carter of 53 Rutland Gate, London.

He was educated at Hazelwood School and at Eton College where he was in Mr. J. P. Carter's House until 1898. He served as member of the Eton College Volunteer Rifles where he rose to the rank of Corporal. He went on to Trinity College Cambridge which he entered as a pensioner on the 25th of June 1898. He served for two years as a member of the Cambridge Rifle Volunteers and attended an annual camp with them. He achieved a BA in 1901.

He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Volunteer, Battalion Hampshire Regiment on the 22nd of May 1901 and attended three annual camps with them. He resigned his commission on the 19th of March 1904.

He was married to Gillian Margaret Hope (nee Sommerville) at St Peter's Church, Cranley Gardens, Kensington on the 30th of June 1911. They lived at Enton Green, Godalming in Surrey and had a son, Simon, born on the 20th of March 1914. On the 27th of May 1922 his wife filed for divorce on the grounds of desertion; she was granted a decree nisi on the 28th of November 1922. He was remarried to Janetta M; (nee McAndrew) in 1924 they lived at The Cottage, New Romney in Kent.

Following the outbreak of war, he applied for a commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery, Special Reserve of Officers on the 25th of November 1914 and was commissioned as a temporary Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery on the 15th of December 1914. He was posted to the 10th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery and joined them at Gallipoli in October 1915 where they had been since the July. He was promoted to Acting Captain on the 3rd of May 1917, a rank he relinquished on the 8th of January 1918, and was promoted to temporary Captain on the 9th of February 1918. He also saw service in Egypt and Palestine. At the end of the war he was serving with the 530th Independent Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery at Lydd in Kent. He was demobilised at the Officers Dispersal Unit at Crystal Palace on the 20th of May 1919.

He was an Underwriting Member of Lloyd's and lived at 32 Gloucester Place in London.

He died at The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth at St John's Wood in London.
Went on to Eton College

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