In Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamaria, Greece is the Commonwealth War Grave of 107020 Driver Mark Lowerson, serving with the “A” Battery 99th Brigade Royal Field Artillery who died 16/12/1918.

The son of Gilbert Lowerson, of 1, Primrose Hill, New Lambton, Fence Houses, Co. Durham, and the late Dorothy Lowerson.

David Sloan has provided the following:

Mark was born in 1892 at Rainton He worked at  Lumley 6th Pit.
Mark’s father Gilbert remarried Frances Edith Oliver. The 1911 Census shows Primrose Terrace (Primrose Hill) New Lambton
Gilbert Lowerson 47 born Rainton Miner; Frances Lowerson 46 born Medomsley; Mark Lowerson 13 born Lumley son Miner; Thomas Oliver 17 born Medomsley stepson Miner; William Lowerson 16 born Lumley son Miner; Arthur Bowes Oliver 15 born Medomsley stepson Miner; Norman Lowerson 14 born Lumley son Miner; Thomas H Lowerson 11 born Lumley son; Clifford Oliver 9 born Medomsley stepson; Beatrice Mary Oliver 11 born Medomsley step daughter; Dorothy Lowerson 8 born Lumley daughter; Barbara Lowerson 7 born Lumley daughter; Barbara Curry 15 born Lumley niece.

His brother William and step brother Thomas Oliver were also killed.

Mark Lowerson is remembered at Burnmoor on B154.01 at Fence Houses on F47.04 and at Woodstone Village on W134.01