Date of Birth
Unknown
College
Borough Road College
Job(s)
Teacher in Gillingham, Kent; Teacher in North Brompton, Kent
Service number
Unknown
WW1 rank
Second Lieutenant
Army Ordinance Department
Theatre of war
Unknown
Date of death
9 April 1918
Buried/memorial
Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium (Grave/Memorial reference: Panel 120 to 124 and 162 and 162A and 163A)
Biography
Second Lieutenant Carl Lowther attended Borough Road College from 1898-1900. Before coming to the college he was an enthusiastic member of his local ‘Young Peoples' Society of Christian Endeavour’. At the college he did particularly well in the drawing, especially geometry and blackboard. He is listed as being destined to teach at a boarding school in Manchester after leaving Borough Road College. He joined the Manchester Regiment in September 1914 as a private and rose to Company Quarter Master Sergeant before being commissioned. His fellow officers had an uncommonly deep appreciation for him. He was 40 when he was killed by shellfire after leading men in attack for 100 yards in the dark on the Steenbeck. He has no known grave as his body was never found or identified.
Sources
Entry on p.85 [Roll of Honour page], Mentioned on Framed Borough Road College Roll of Honour, Borough Road College 1897 applications, 1901 Annual Report, Secondary source information provided by Douglas Craik (taken from Commonwealth War Graves Commission), The O.B.’s War Hum and Roll of Service (1918, 4th Edition)