Forenames

Victor Thomas AWMM

Surname

Low AWMM

Also known as

Victor Lo Keong AWMM

Service number

WWI 37663 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

3 Jul 1894 AWMM

Post war occupation

Architect/Civilian AWMM

Next of kin

Miss Estelle Low (sister), 13 Scotland Street, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 37663 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Civil Engineer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 26 Apr 1917-20 Jul 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 84 AWMM Vessel was Turakina AWMM Sapper AWMM 5th Reinforcements AWMM New Zealand Engineers, Tunnelling Company AWMM

Death

11 May 1953 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10920827
  Further Reference
• Brown, Colleen. Victor Low, the Chinese Anzac who laid out the Bulford Kiwi.
  https://ww100.govt.nz/bulford-kiwi
  Further Reference
• Victor Low – the Chinese Anzac who laid out the Bulford Kiwi https://ww100.govt.nz/bulford-kiwi
  Public - Helen - Researcher - 15 April 2024 - Colleen Brown - author of The Bulford Kiwi:

References

• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  62: 40
• Kennedy, A. (2015). Chinese Anzacs : Australians of Chinese descent in the defence forces 1885-1919 (revised to include New Zealand-born Chinese of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1914-1919) (2nd ed). Wellington: New Zealand Chinese Association.
• Neill, J.C. (Ed.). (1922). The New Zealand Tunnelling Company, 1915-1919. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Annabell, N. Official History of the New Zealand Engineers during the Great War 1914–1919. Wanganui: Evans, Cobb & Sharpe, 1927.
• HMNZT 84 - The klink : a souvenir of the voyage of S.S. Turakina (H.M.N.Z.T. 84) April to July, 1917; and a history of the doings of the Left Wing of the 25th Reinforcements N.Z.E.F. on their way to the Front -- London : Printed by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. : 1917