The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A H S Lowe

Private Austin Herbert Scott LOWE, 242241, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, death presumed on or after, 21st March 1918.

1891, born Isle of Wight, son of Silas Scott & Sarah Jane Lowe.

1911 Census - Blackgang, Chale, Isle of Wight - Sarah Jane Lowe, head, age 53, widow, tea room, own account, born Whitwell, Isle of Wight; Austin Herbert Scott Lowe, son, age 20, bus driver, own account, born Chale, Isle of Wight; Violet Constance Irene Lowe, daughter, age 12, born Chale, Isle of Wight.

5th September 1914, Register Office, Newport, Isle of Wight, married *Elizabeth Mary Jane Green, spinster.

Children - Victor Alan Lowe, born 23rd December 1914, Newport.

Enlisted Newport, Isle of Wight, age 23 years & 11 months, height 5ft 2¼ inches, weight 118lbs. Resided 54 New Street, Newport, Isle of Wight / c/o Mrs Barrett, Stourbridge, Blandford, Dorset / c/o Mrs Green, Sandle Lodge Farm, Sandleheath, Salisbury / . Formerly groom / veterinary surgeons assistasnt.

Home 11th December 1915 to 31st May 1917; BEF 1st June 1917 to 21st March 1918.

11th December 1915, enlisted; 12th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 1st February 1917, mobilized; 2nd February 1917, posted 2/5th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 30th May 1917, posted 3rd/4th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 31st May 1917, Southampton, embarked; 1st June 1917, Boulogne, disembarked; 10th February 1918, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 24th February 1918 to 9th March 1918, leave to UK; 28th March 1918, posted missing.

30th December 1919, Statement of Relatives, (completed by Ethel May Buckell, sister) - Widow, Elizabeth Mary Jane Lowe, 3 Oak Villas, The Close, Blandford; Child , Victor Alan Lowe, 23rd December 1914, 3 Oak Villas, The Close, Blandford; Father, Silas Lowe, deceased; Mother, Mrs Lowe, deceased; Brothers - none; Sisters - Ethel May Buckell, age 37, Clatterford Road, Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight; Elsie Bertha Cotton, age 36, Anns Villa, Niton, Isle of Wight; Rowena Maud Cheek, age 34, Briars Cottage, Chale, Isle of Wight; Violet Constance Simmons, age 21, Clatterford Road, Garden Cottage, Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight.

*20th July 1920, Blandford Dorset, married George Simmons.

Commemorated at Pozieres Memorial, Panel 58 and 59, France & Carisbrooke Castle County War Memorial, Panel 8, Isle of Wight; Chale Parish War Memorial, Isle of Wight; Chale St Andrews Church, Parish Roll of Honour; Newport Borough War Memorial, WW1, Panel 2, Isle of Wight.

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