Lowe H S Lt 2nd Worcestershire Regiment

Lowe H S Lt 2nd Worcestershire Regiment

LIEUTENANT H. S. LOWE

2ND BATTALION THE WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT

HENRY STANLEY Lowe was the youngest son of the Rev. Edward Lowe, Vicar of Hallingborough, Lincolnshire, and of Elizabeth his wife.

He entered the School in 1904 and passed into the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in 1908. He went out to India in 1910, was promoted Lieutenant in 1913, and returned with his Regiment in the same year.

He went to the Front with the First Expeditionary Force, was present at the Retreat from Mons and in the Battles of the Marne and of the Aisne. He was wounded in the last of these, on September 20th, and died of his wounds, in Paris, on October 21st, 1914. Age 24.

Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1

LOWE, HENRY STANLEY, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Worcestershire Regt., yst. s. of the late Rev. Edward Jackson Lowe, Vicar of Stallingborough, and only s. by his 2nd wife; b. Stallingborough, co. Lincoln, 7 Feb. 1891; educ. Glengarth Preparatory School, Cheltenham; Bilton Grange, near Rugby; Rugby, and in Sandhurst Company at Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Northamptonshire Regt., 6 Nov. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 5 March, 1913; joined his regt. in Jhansi, India, in Jan. 1910; returned to Aldershot in 1913; went to France, and died at Paris, 21 Oct. following, of wounds received in action during the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept.; unm. Buried at St. Germain-en-Laye.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

 

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