Name
Frederick J Lowe
2/07/1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/08/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
40444
Lincolnshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 35 to 37 and 162 to 162A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing in Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Kings Langley Village Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Kings Langley, John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Nash Mills, Not on the Hemel Hempstead Memorials
Pre War
Frederick John Lowe was born on 2 July 1894, in Hemel Hempstead, son of Walter William Lowe, and Annie Lowe, (nee Olliff), the eldest of eight children, Walter (B 1896), Rose (B 1897), Annie (B 1899), James (B 1903), Kate (B 1905), Percy (B 1906), and Alfred (B 1908).
He was Baptised on 1 August 1894, in the Parish Church, Boxmoor, Herts.
1901 Census records Frederick (as John) aged 6, living with his parents and three siblings, in Water lane, Kings Langley, Herts.
1911 Census records Frederick aged 16, working as a Mill Hand, living with his parents, and his seven siblings, in Alexander Road, Kings Langley, Herts.
At the time of his enlistment Frederick was working for John Dickinson & Co, at their Nash Mills Site.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted and was initially posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 27698, later transferred to the 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, with the service number 40444.
He was Killed in Action on 16 August 1917, aged 22. (Possibly at the Battle of Langemark) (16-18 August 1917) He has no known grave and is commemorated on the CWGC Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
Additional Information
His mother Annie Lowe received a dependents pension of 9/- a week for life from 26 March 1918. The value of his effects was £3-3s-7d, Pay Owing and £6-10s-0d War Gratuity which went to his mother Annie Lowe.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne, Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
