Mowat, James
Rank: Fleet-Surgeon, R.N. (retd.); Major, R.A.M.C.
Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps
Biography: Son of George Mowat. Born New Deer, 11 November 1870; graduated M.B., 1891; Surgeon, R.N., 1894; Staff-Surgeon, 1902. After 20 years service in the Royal Navy, Mowat retired in May 1914, and took up private practice in Dovercourt, Essex. On 4 August 1914 he was called up for active service, and appointed P.M.O., H.M.S. "Hermes". Whilst he was acting in this capacity the ship was torpedoed in the Straits of Dover, 31 October 1914, and Mowat received the thanks of the Lords of the Admiralty for his good work on that occasion. In November 1914 he was appointed to H.M.S. "Otway", but, owing to shock consequent on the torpedoing of the "Hermes", he was invalided out of the Navy. When the Government issued an appeal because of the shortage of Doctors, Mowat at once responded. He joined the East Anglian C.C. Station, was gazetted Major, R.A.M.C., 7 May 1915, and was ordered to the Dardanelles. On his way to take his share in forming a Hospital at Mudros he lost his life in the sinking of the transport "King Edward", which went down in the Aegean Sea, 13 August 1915.
Date of Death: 13 August 1915
Burial Details: Name recorded on the Helles Memorial, Panel 236, Column 1.
Publication: Roll of Service, edited by Mabel Desborough Allardyce. Published 1921.
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