BORN HULL 1887. SON OF JOHN AND ISABELLA LOWSON. THE SIXTH OF SEVEN CHILDREN. OLDER SISTERS ADA, EMMA AND FLORENCE LOWSON. BROTHERS WILLIAM, JOHN AND THOMAS LOWSON. HE WAS BROUGHT UP BY SARAH AND SAMUEL BROD, WHO WERE RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS. HE WAS LIVING AT 21 LUCY’S PLACE, PORTER STREET, WITH HIS SIBLINGS IN THE 1911 CENSUS. HE WAS A FORMER NER RAILWAY WORKER. ENLISTED IN HULL AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. JOINED THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. EX 38469 EYR. MARRIED SARAH BURTON AT SCULCOATES CHURCH, HULL, IN JAN 1915. HE WAS RETURNING TO ENGLAND ON THE HOSPITAL SHIP ‘WARILDA’, WHEN IT WAS TORPEDOED IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL 03/08/1918. HERBERT LOWSON DROWNED WITH 122 OTHERS, AGED 31. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE RETURNED TO HIS WIDOW SARAH LOWSON. HE IS BURIED AT SHIRLEYS CHURCH, SOUTHAMPTON.
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Lowson, Herbert
First name:
HERBERT
Military Number:
45860
Rank:
Private
Date Died
03/08/1918
Place died:
Southampton, Hampshire, UK
Age:
31
