Commemorated: | |||
1. Grave: | Harrogate (Harlow Hill) Cemetery | H.190 | |
2. Book: | The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918 | Pg.128 | |
3. Memorial: | The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour | 16C GQS | |
Awards & Titles: |
Early Life :
Sydney Lowsley was born on 3rd May 1879 at Reading, Berkshire. He attended Malvern College in House 2 from 1893 to 1896. He married Marion Wilson within the Wolverhampton Registration District.Service Life:
Campaigns:
- The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.
Unit / Ship / Est.: HMS President |
HMS President is the home of the London Division of the Royal Naval Reserve. It has been a shore establishment near Tower Bridge overlooking the entrance to St Katharine Docks since 1988. Ships that have been previously renamed HMS President whilst serving as the home of the London Division of the Royal Naval Reserve include: HMS Buzzard, a Nymphe-class screw sloop launched in 1887 and renamed HMS President in 1911. She was lent away in 1919 and sold in 1921. |
Action : Natural Causes |
Natural causes is attributed those deaths due to causes that were not directly associated with the war. Included in this are wartime deaths resulting from, for example, theSpanish Influenza pandemic and its associated pneumonia problems and other attributions such as age and exhaustion. It also groups those who through Post Traumatic Stress committed suicide as a result of their experiences.
Detail :
F.35435 Sydney Evan Lowsley, Air Mechanic 1st Class, Royal Naval Air Service.
He joined the Royal Naval Air Service on 13th August 1917. Sydney was recorded in his military records as being 5 feet 9 inches tall with brown hair, brown eyes and a fresh complexion. He died in Norwood Cottage Hospital from septic pneumonia and pyaemia. His next of kin at the time of his death was his wife, Marion, 7 Royal Crescent, Leeds Road, Harrogate, Yorkshire.
Masonic :
Type | Lodge Name and No. | Province/District : |
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Mother : | Harrogate and Claro No. 1001 E.C. | Yorkshire (West Riding) |
Initiated | Passed | Raised |
4th October 1904 | 11th November 1904 | 9th December 1904 |
Prior to the war and upon his initiation he is recorded as resident in Harrogate employed as a Surveyor, but was later described as a Civil Engineer. Although no specific war service is shown in the contribution record it shows he "Died 27th Sep/17."
Source :
The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- The (UK) National Archives
- Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
- ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry
Additional Source:
- Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
- Researcher : Bruce Littley