Biography:
Guy Bonham-Carter was born 25 May 1884, the third son of Alfred Bonham-Carter C.B., of 3 Courtfield Road, S.W., late Referee of Private Bills in the House of Commons, and Mary, daughter of George Warde Norman.
He came to Winchester College from Horris Hill in May 1897 and was in H House, Bramston's. He rowed a little, and played cricket and gold for his house. He left Winchester in December 1901 and went up to Magdalen College, Oxford in 1902. Guy then entered the Army from university, being gazetted in 1905 to the 19th Hussars.
From 1910 to 1911 he served with the Mounted Infantry in West Africa and in 1913 was appointed Adjutant to the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars. He went to France with them in September 1914 and served through the earlier battles of the war, being mentioned in Lord French's Despatch of 31 May 1915. He was wounded by a sniper in a support trench near Ypres during the night of 14/15 May and died shortly afterwards.
He is commemorated by a plaque in St Mary's Church, Buriton, and another plaque also commemorates his cousin, Captain Arthur Thomas Bonham-Carter (H 1883-1887), killed in action on the Somme in 1916 (see individual entry).
Captain Bonham-Carter married Miss Kathleen Arkwright in October 1911 and left two children.