Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

please scroll down to send a message

221839 Pte. William Matthew Lowery British Army 1st Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers from:Chapeltown, Nr Sheffield, Yorkshire (d.26th Sep 1917) William Matthew Lowery, born April 1895 in Chapeltown, Yorkshire to Pherris Lowery and his wife Annie (nee Matthews), served in WW1 as part of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. His occupation was a bricklayer, and he was the only one of his brothers to sign up for war service. He signed the military oath and declaration on the 6th January 1915 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, where he joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers in the 8th Battalion. He was in the Expeditionary Force in France in September 1915, and in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in November 1915. He was in hospital in Salonica (Greece) from July 16th 1916 to the 17th July 1917, then being admitted to hospital for Malaria onboard HMHS Braemar Castle (a hospital ship). He was again in hospital in Malta for Malaria in July 1916, and again for Malaria in a British General Hospital in October 1916. Once again, in March 1917, he was in a British General Hospital and then in the BSGH Oxford Hospital for Malaria, where his stay in hospital lasted 30 days. In May 1917, he was posted to the depot Battalion at Bovington, Dorset (of which Bovington Camp was in charge of the tank corps in 1917). He was then posted as part of the expeditionary force in France on 30th July 1917, where he embarked at Folkstone, and disembarked at L.Logne. On the 26th September 1917, he was presumed dead after being recorded as missing while with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He left no will. His name in inscribed on the curved wall of the Tyne Cot Memorial in Zonnebeke, West Flanders, Belgium. It simply reads Lowery W. M. This cemetery is especially for those who were missing in action in Belgian Flanders which covers the area known as the Ypres Salient. Having never known William myself, I was able to aquire this information from war records. He was my great grandmother's cousin, and I am proud to be able to say that he is a part of my family, no matter how distantly related. Rest In Peace William, and thank you. Please type your message:      We recommend you copy the text about this item and keep a copy on your own computer before pressing submit. Your Name:             Email Address:       @ **Please put first part of your email, (before the @ sign) in the first box, and the second part in the second box. Do not include @, it is automatic. Do not enter your full email in each box or add an @ sign or random spaces.**