Background
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.
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Colonel Guy Sutton Bocquet International Commission on Illumination VD Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts 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.
Career
Bocquet was apprenticed for two years with the London and North Western Railway before joining the Indian State Railways in 1901 as a Transport Officer. In 1912 he was recorded as being a Captain in the Eastern Bengal State Railway Volunteer Rifles having volunteered on 17 December 1907. In recognition of his war service, he was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1918.
He retired from the Indian Railways in 1936.
In 1910 Bocquet married Gwynneth (née Macredie), an American citizen from Slayton, Minnesota. Bocquet died in Crowborough, England on 18 January 1961.
Achievements
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Bocquet served in World War I with the East Bengal Railway Battalion, was mentioned in despatches, attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and was made Deputy Director of Railways in Mesopotamia. After World War I Bocquet became a senior officer in the East Bengal Railway and attained the rank of Colonel commanding the East Bengal Railway Battalion Auxiliary Force between 1925 and 1932. He served as Aide-de-Camp to the Viceroy of India between 1928 and 1932 and was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935.
Membership
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.
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January 18, 1961 (aged 78)