Guy Sutton Bocquet

Colonel G.S. Bocquet CIE

Colonel Guy Sutton Bocquet CIE VD FRSA (14 May 1882 – 18 January 1961) was a Lieutenant-Colonel and Deputy Director of Railways in Mesopotamia during World War I, a senior officer in the East Bengal Railway Company between 1925 and 1936, a Colonel commanding the East Bengal Railway Battalion Auxiliary Force in India between 1925 and 1932 and aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India between 1928 and 1932.[1][2][3][4][5]

Biography

Guy Sutton Bocquet was born on 14 May 1882, the third son of William Bocquet of Liverpool and his wife, Baroness Van Zuylen van Neveldt de Gaesbeck of Brussels.[2][3][6] His brother was the composer, Roland Bocquet, and both boys were educated at Bedford Modern School.[7][8]

Bocquet was apprenticed for two years with the London and North Western Railway before joining the Indian State Railways in 1901[9] as a Transport Officer.[2][3][10] In 1912 he was recorded as being a Captain in the Eastern Bengal State Railway Volunteer Rifles having volunteered on 17 December 1907.[11]

Bocquet served in World War I with the East Bengal Railway Battalion,[12] was mentioned in despatches, attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel[13] and was made Deputy Director of Railways in Mesopotamia.[1][2][3] In recognition of his war service, he was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1918.[1][4][14]

After World War I Bocquet became a senior officer in the East Bengal Railway[15][16] and attained the rank of Colonel commanding the East Bengal Railway Battalion Auxiliary Force between 1925 and 1932.[2] He served as ADC to the Viceroy of India between 1928 and 1932[1][2][3][6] and was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935.[6] He retired from the Indian Railways in 1936.[17]

In 1910 Bocquet married Gwynneth (née Macredie), an American citizen from Slayton, Minnesota.[2][3][18] He was fond of golf, tennis, and the fine arts, a member of the Bengal Club and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[6]

Bocquet died in Crowborough, England on 18 January 1961.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Obituary in The Times, 21 January 1961
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Who's Who". ukwhoswho.com. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Whos Who, Men and Women of the Time, 1935". Mocavo. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Kellys Handbook to the Titled, Landed & Official Classes for 1923". Mocavo. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "The Times of India Directory and Year Book, Including Who's who". google.co.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Who Was Who
  7. ↑ School of the Black and Red, A.G. Underwood (2010 edition). Hardback p.288: President of the OBM Club in 1952
  8. ↑ "Photograph of Old Bedford Modernian XIX Century Luncheon". nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  9. ↑ "History of Services of the Officers of the Engineer and State Railway ... - India. Railway Board - Google Books". google.co.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  10. ↑ "The British Library - India Office Select Materials - browse index". bl.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  11. ↑ Indian Army Quarterly List, 1 January 1912
  12. ↑ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31548/page/11480/data.pdf
  13. ↑ British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards 1914-1920
  14. ↑ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30865/supplement/9964/data.pdf
  15. ↑ "Journal". google.co.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  16. ↑ "Debrett's Peerage". google.co.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  17. ↑ "The India Office and Burma Office List". google.co.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  18. ↑ 1911 England Census
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