He was the son of Robert and Mary Lowes, of 12, West Street, North Seaton Colliery.
Morpeth Herald 01/02/1918 carries a brief obituary:
Lance-Sergeant Robert Lowes, West Row, North Seaton, has died in Germany from wounds received in action.
Acknowledgements: Margaret Allison.
Soldiers Died in the Great War gives his service number as 42511.
Robert Lowes is remembered at North Seaton on N33.03, where he is wrongly recorded as serving in a Tyneside Scottish Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers and at Ashington on A17.43
