Private Thomas Lowe

Private Thomas William Lowe, 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards. He was killed in France by shellfire during a heavy bombardment on the Battalion trenches  on 13th October 1915 during the Battle of Loos and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, Dud Corner, Loos, France. Before the War he had been employed as a fireman on the North East Railway. At that time the Battalion held frontline trenches in the ” Fosse 8 ” sector of the Battlefield near the Hoenzollern Redoubt. The photo shows shells bursting on the redoubt.