Lance Corporal Walter James Lowings (84283)
Lance Corporal Walter James Lowings was born in Cambridge and served with the 203rd Field Company, Royal Engineers, no. 4 section.
He was married to Minnie and had two daughters
He was killed in action on the 28th September 1918 aged 38 and is buried at Plot 7, Row V, Grave 9, Railway Dugouts Zillebeke Ypres.
He was the last of four brothers to die during the war all of whom are listed on the Cambridge Romsey Methodist Church War Memorial.
His widow never remarried and died in the late 1970s aged 90.
Photograph of Walter in uniform with wife Minnie (seated) and two daughters (Harriet is seated)
Photograph of Walter in uniform with wife Minnie
Photograph of Walter in uniform with hand on a plinth
Photograph of wife Minnie at Walter's battlefield grave
Photograph of Walter's headstone
Photograph of a trench with a helmet
CONTRIBUTOR
Elizabeth Danskin
DATE
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LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
20
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
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