George Herbert Bowlby MD CM MRCS LRCP (16 July 1865 – 10 November 1916[1]) was a Canadian physician and surgeon, municipal politician, and military officer.

He was born in the town of Berlin, Ontario (now known as Kitchener), where he later practiced medicine and served in a succession of elected municipal positions, culminating in a term as mayor in 1901.

In November 1916, at the age of 51, he died in an accidental fall from a cliff near the military hospital in Sussex where he was assigned.

His father, Adam Bowlby, who was George Herbert's paternal grandfather, was a captain in the colonial militia during the War of 1812 and the Upper Canada Rebellion; his paternal grandfather, Richard Bowlby, who was George Herbert's great-grandfather, was a United Empire Loyalist who had lived in New Jersey and emigrated to Canada as a result of the American Revolution.

[9] The previous year, 1893, Seagram had donated a 14-acre (5.7-hectare) parcel of land on the municipal border between Berlin and Waterloo to the Hospital Trust.

On the evening that war was officially declared, C Squadron of the Grey's Horse paraded through Victoria Park in Berlin in a show of patriotism.

[14] The Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) took a more prominent role, and Bowlby offered his services as a surgeon, departing from Berlin in July 1915.

By the time of his transfer to Seaford, Bowlby had been acting as the Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services.

[17] In 1916, a section of the Canadian Army Medical Corps under Lieutenant Colonel Edwin Seaborn, who had commanded the No.

[18] Since arriving in England, Bowlby had been an active hill walker and had written a number of letters home to his mother, Martha, vividly describing the beauty of the seaside locations where he had been stationed.

His body was discovered at the foot of some cliffs on 11 November, the next day, which was initially recorded as his official date of death.

Lang telephoned Captain Thomas William Seagram, the paymaster of the 118th (North Waterloo) Battalion, who was Bowlby's brother-in-law.

[9] She was riding in the back seat of a Peerless automobile being driven by her brother, Thomas Seagram, when the car was struck by the driver of a Ford Roadster.