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LOWE, Alex Lindsay
Personal Details
Service Number: | 31347 |
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Enlisted: | 28 August 1916, Enlisted at Melbourne |
Last Rank: | Gunner |
Last Unit: | 15th Light Trench Mortar Battery |
Born: | Caulfield, Victoria, Australia, 1895 |
Home Town: | Hawthorn, Boroondara, Victoria |
Schooling: | All Saints Grammar School, East St Kilda, Victoria, Australia |
Occupation: | Warehouseman |
Died: | Killed in Action, Ypres, Belgium, 26 September 1917 |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 31 No known grave, Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
Service History
World War 1 Service
28 Aug 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 31347, Enlisted at Melbourne | |
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23 Dec 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 31347, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
23 Dec 1916: | Embarked Gunner, 31347, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , RMS Orontes, Sydney | |
26 Sep 1917: | Involvement Gunner, 31347, 15th Light Trench Mortar Battery, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 31347 awm_unit: 15th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery awm_rank: Gunner awm_died_date: 1917-09-26 |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Alexander and Mary Lowe of 53 Lisson Street, Hawthorn, Victoria; brother of Harold Rollo Lowe
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
Also served in Cadets and Citizen Forces