Photo: Brian Chandler
T. Lowrey
Royal Engineers
19th January 1916, age 42.
Rock of ages cleft for me.
Thomas Lowrey was born at Newcastle upon Tyne in the first quarter of 1873 to Thomas and Matilda (nee Jobe). He married Charlotte Hannah Scott at Newcastle in the fourth quarter of 1907. According to the 1911 Census they lived at 13 Kyle Street, Elswick, where his occupation is given as “bricklayer”. Thomas enlisted at Newcastle on 6th August 1914 and served with the 1st Northumberland Field Company. He died at 10.45am at Walkergate Hospital, Newcastle, from Pulmonary Tuberculosis. His symptoms began in 1915 when he was hospitalised suffering from bronchitis due to the cold in the trenches in Ypres, Belgium.
Acknowledgements: Ron Carson
Thomas Lowrey is not remembered on a local War Memorial.
