Alex Lindsay LOWE

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Service Number:	31347
Enlisted:	28 August 1916, Enlisted at Melbourne
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	15th Light Trench Mortar Battery
Born:	Caulfield, Victoria, Australia, 1895
Home Town:	Hawthorn, Boroondara, Victoria
Schooling:	All Saints Grammar School, East St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Warehouseman
Died:	Killed in Action, Ypres, Belgium, 26 September 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 31 No known grave, Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)

28 Aug 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 31347, Enlisted at Melbourne
23 Dec 1916:	Involvement Gunner, 31347, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
23 Dec 1916:	Embarked Gunner, 31347, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , RMS Orontes, Sydney
26 Sep 1917:	Involvement Gunner, 31347, 15th Light Trench Mortar Battery, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 31347 awm_unit: 15th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery awm_rank: Gunner awm_died_date: 1917-09-26

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Son of Alexander and Mary Lowe of 53 Lisson Street, Hawthorn, Victoria; brother of Harold Rollo Lowe

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

Also served in Cadets and Citizen Forces