Robert attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich after leaving Wrekin and was commissioned to the Royal Artillery soon after the outbreak of war. He saw service in West Africa and in India, where he had a serious illness. After his recovery he was posted to Burma in command of a battery. In February 1945 he went on patrol to reconnoitre a forward position and never returned. Initially it was presumed that he had been captured and was a prisoner of war, but this was subsequently changed to ‘missing, believed killed’. The date recorded was Wednesday 28^th February 1945 at the age of 24. 

One of three OWs whose names appear on the Rangoon Memorial, Taukkyan War Cemetery, Mingaladon township, Myanmar.

Husband of Patricia Lowe of Clontarf, Dublin, Irish Republic: son of Mr & Mrs R. D. Lowe, Balham, London SW12.

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See also the Commonwealth War Graves Commission permanent digital memorial, ‘Evermore: Stories of the fallen’ relating to:-
Captain Robert Douglas David LOWE