Date of Birth
15 November 1889
College
Borough Road College
Job(s)
Teacher at Central Boys’ School, Stoke-on-Trent
Service number
Unknown
WW1 rank
Lieutenant
The King’s Liverpool Regiment, B.E.F.
Theatre of war
Europe
Date of death
18 August 1918
Buried/memorial
Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix (Grave/Memorial reference: I. J. 10)
Biography
Lieutenant Ronald Charles Lowe was the son of Mr C. E. and Mrs M. H. Lowe, born in Stoke-on-Trent. He spent two years at Borough Road College, graduating with a BA from London University in 1912. Lowe enlisted in the Inns of Court Officers Training Corps on 1 September 1914 and was commissioned into the 8th Battalion Liverpool Regiment, ‘The King’s’. He was wounded on Easter Monday, 9 April 1917 and died over his wounds on 18 August 1918, aged 28.
Sources
Mentioned on Framed Borough Road College Roll of Honour, Borough Road College 1907 applications, BRCSYG44, Secondary source information provided by Douglas Craik (taken from Commonwealth War Graves Commission), 1911 Annual Report