Louis Henry Lowe

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Louis Henry AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Lowe AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 12679 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

11th January, 1893

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 September 2025 - Military Record

Wāhi Whānau

Otahuhu, Auckland

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 September 2025 - Military Record

Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Henry & Sarah LOWE

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 September 2025 - NZ BDM Birth Records

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

20 Mary Street, Thames, New Zealand

Public - Marie Annette Rosina - Other Relative - 27 April 2015 - Family information

Uri kiritahi

• Henry Lowe (father), Mary Street, Thames, New Zealand AWMM
• Henry and Sarah Lowe (parents) 20 Mary Street, Thames, New Zealand
  Public - Marie Annette Rosina - Other Relative - 27 April 2015 - Family information

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Single

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 September 2025 - Military Record

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 12679 AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM Butcher/Civilian AWMM

Pakeke i te whakaurunga

23 years old

Public - Annette - Other Relative - 2 May 2015 - Family information

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 06 May 1916-21 Jun 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 52 AWMM Vessel was Mokoia AWMM Sapper AWMM 12th Reinforcements New Zealand Signalling Corps AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

• WW1 Trooper AWMM
  Auckland Mounted Rifles AWMM
• Trooper
  Public - Annette - Other Relative - 27 April 2015 - From a newspaper clipping - possibly 'The Thames Star'
  http://www.thetreasury.org.nz/Lowe/LoweHenry.htm

Louis Lowe was the only son of Henry and Sarah Lowe, of Thames, New Zealand.

Next of Kin: Mr H. Lowe Mary St Thames (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Matenga

15 Nov 1917 AWMM
Age  25 AWMM

Pakeke i te matenga

24 - born 11 January 1893

Public - Annette - Other Relative - 27 April 2015 - Family information

Te momo matenga

Died of wounds AWMM

Urupā

Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel AWMM M. 14. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Trooper Louis Lowe (died of wounds) was the only son of Mr. Henry Lowe, Mayor of Thames. Deceased, who was about 22 years of age, finished his education at the Thames High School, and when he enlisted was connected with his father's business. He left New Zealand with the Auckland Mounted Rifles

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 17 September 2025 - WHILE DOING THEIR DUTY
Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 122, 20 November 1917, Page 8

Ingoa maumaharatanga

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10921933
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/652771/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/652771
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Information kindly provided by family
• HMNZT 52.The bugle call of the 12th NZ Reinforcements : being the souvenir number of The Mokoia chronicle.(1916). On board ship: Published on board H.M.N.Z. Transport no. 52 "S.S. Mokoia".
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  31: 14
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Nicol, C.G. (1921). The story of two campaigns: Official war history of the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment 1914-1919. Auckland, N.Z.: Wilson & Horton.