Lowes, Albert Edward | Universities at War

Personal details

Badges and Insignia - Army Service Corps. Image kindly provided by Wartime Memories Project.

Name on Memorial:

Lowes, A. E.

Forename(s):

Albert Edward

Surname:

Lowes

Date of Birth:

Monday, August 26, 1889

Date of Death:

Monday, April 26, 1915

Age at Death:

University life

College:

Armstrong College, Newcastle upon Tyne

Staff or Student:

Student

Military Service

The information displayed here is at the time of death.

Service Number:

T/175

Rank:

Driver

Service:

Army

Unit:

Army Service Corps, Northumberland Divisional Train

Prisoner of War:

Theatre of War:

France and Flanders

Biography

Albert lived with his widowed mother, Annie Ellen Lowes and his four siblings, Robert Telford (a marine engineer) William, (an estate agent), Mary Elizabeth Blanche Augusta, (a typist), and their aunt Mary Elizabeth Lowes. He was educated at Dame Allan’s Endowed School, Newcastle upon Tyne, then Armstrong College. He was employed as an architect before the War.

Albert died in action at Ypres on 26th April 1915 aged 26.

Addresses before and during the war

178 Portland Road, Newcastle On Tyne, (place of residence as entered in the 1911 Census)

Place of Burial or Battle Site Memorial

Albert is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Memorials

Other Memorials:

Albert is also commemorated on a plaque to former pupils of Dame Allan School, now situated in Newsom Hall, Fenham, and on the screen in Jesmond Parish Church. In the same church there is a brass plaque dedicated to him, erected by his mother.

Additional images

Research information

Sources:

UK Census registers, National Archives (available via Ancestry.co.uk)

UK Military Service Records, National Archives (available via Ancestry.co.uk)

Newcastle University Archives (Roll of Service, Armstrong College Calendars, The Northerner Student Magazine)

North East War Memorials Project

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Researched by:

Sophie Anderton, Stephen Davies, Holly Johnson