LOWER, Douglas Grenville
| Service Number: | SX877 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 November 1939, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Medical Corps WW1 |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, 14 July 1918 |
| Home Town: | Hindmarsh, Charles Sturt, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Textile Worker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Libya, 9 September 1941, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
Tobruk War Cemetery, Tobruk, Libya Plot 6. Row G. Grave 6 |
| Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Nov 1939: | Involvement Lieutenant, SX877 | |
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| 3 Nov 1939: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
| 3 Nov 1939: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Lieutenant, SX877, Australian Army Medical Corps WW1 | |
| 3 Nov 1939: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, SX877 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Lower, of Susan street, Hindmarsh, have been informed that their second son, Lieutenant Douglas Grenville Lower, was killed in action on Sep-tember 9. He was 22. Lieutenant Lower was coxswain in the Ade-laide High School rowing eight in 1932, 1933, and 1934, and was also cox for the Adelaide Rowing Club during the same seasons. He en-listed in the AIF on September 4, 1939, the day after war was de-clared. He left Australia as a sergeant on May 6, 1940. He was made a Warrant Officer on July 14, 1940—his 21st birthday—and re-ceived his commission three weeks later. His elder brother, Sergeant P. J. Lower, is serving with the AIF in the Near East, and his younger brother, Aircraftman 1 R. B. Lower, is in the RAAF. Lieutenant Lower was engaged to be married to Miss Joyce Ritchie, formerly of Brisbane.
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