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James Lowe

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James Pension Record image courtesy of WFA

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
  • Place of enlistment: Dundee
  • Service no: 10370
  • Rank: Private
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Gordon Highlanders
  • Unit/Ship: 2nd Battalion
  • Place of Death: Belgium
  • Age at Death: 28
  • Date of Death: 29.10.1914
  • Burial Country: Belgium
  • Cemetery: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: Panel 38

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth:
  • Place of Birth: Dundee
  • Address: 15 Kirk St, Lochee, Dundee
  • Occupation:
  • Mother:

    Jean Lowe, 115 Strathmartine Rd, Dundee

  • Father:

    James Lowe

  • Siblings:

    Margaret, Jane, Alice, David & Helen

  • Spouse:
  • Children:

More about James Lowe

James has no known grave but is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial.

David Lowe   S/8193   Gordon Highlanders

LOWE___Killed in action, on 2d April, Private David Lowe, Gordon Highlanders, aged 20 years, eldest and dearly loved son of Mr and Mrs Lowe, 15 Kirk Street, Lochee.

Dundee People’s Journal 28th April 1917

Additional information kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell

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