Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

A Great War M.M. to Driver H. H. Lowe, Royal Field Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (686607 Dvr., D.148/Bde. R.F.A.-T.F.); together with Memorial Plaque (Hereward Harry Lowe), pierced at 12 o’clock, good very fine and better (2) £320-360

M.M. London Gazette 12 December 1917.

Hereward Harry Lowe was born in Shrewsbury and enlisted at Liverpool. Serving with “D” Battery, 148th Brigade Royal Field Artillery, he was killed in action, France/Flanders, on 25 April 1918. Having no known grave his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.