Acknowledgments: Barney Rice
Linda Allies says:
My Uncle Ralph ordinary signalman, was a volunteer who bravely died on 5th November 1940 for his country, on HMS Jervis Bay. He was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne. He was only 21 years old. Nana never ever got over the loss of her eldest son. My Dad was his brother Harold; he also signed up to fight when he was only 17 years old. Ralph died at the hands of a German raider the Admiral Scheer.
We had a picture of the Jarvis Bay in our sitting room where on Remembrance Sunday we would put our poppies. Uncle Ralph was only twenty when he died Nan sent over Ralph’s birthday present for his twenty first birthday but this was returned unopened. Ralph was engaged to a Canadian girl.
His story is told in Bainbridge: Our Fallen Heroes 1939-45 Ian Johnson.
Ralph Brooksbank Lowe is remembered in Gateshead on G39.103, in Newcastle on NUT012, and on our List of Ships’ crews
