Thomas Blake Lowe

Lance Corporal

Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys Regiment) 4888 2/6th; C Coy
Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys Regiment)
241785 11th Battalions; 14 Platoon; D Coy

Photo Lea Mills postcard

Blake Lowe in WW1

Notes
Thomas Blake Lowe was usually recorded as Blake Lowe. He joined the Army on 12 November 1915. Initially he served in Curragh Ireland then in Italy and France. At some time he was the Canadian Red CrossHospital, Taplow, Berkshire.
After the war he again worked at Lea Mills.

Medal Card Index
He was awarded the Victory and British War Medals.

Newspaper Report

Derbyshire Courier, 5 May 1917

Newspaper photo of Blake Lowe in WW1

Belper News, 18 May 1917
LEA BRIDGE SOLDIER WOUNDED
The other morning Mrs Lowe, of Lea Bridge, received a letter from her son, Private Blake Lowe, that he was wounded and at the Base Hospital in France, and going on well under the circumstances. He also says had it not been for his steel helmet, part of his head would have been blown off. The result was a wound across his forehead. Private Lowe belongs to the Lewis Machine Gun Section and had seen service in Ireland before going to France.

The same report had appeared in the Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald dated 12 May 1917

Letters to JB Marsden-Smedley

4888 C Company
2/6 Sherwood Foresters, Rath Camp Curragh, Ireland
Dec. 20/16
To Messrs J.B.& A.S. Marsden Smedley
Sirs,
Very many thanks for your kindness in sending me the splendid parcel that arrived quite safely on Tuesday morning. It is indeed good of you to think of us in this way, & I can assure you that your kindness is greatly appreciated. We were hoping to be in England for Christmas, & had orders to be ready to move, but they were cancelled until the New Year. The weather here is ideal for Xmas but too cold to make soldiering comfortable. Again thanking you, & wishing you the compliments of the season.
I remain
Yours sincerely
T.B. Lowe

241785. Pte. T.B. Lowe,
14 Platoon D Com: 11 Sherwood Forester. I.E.F. Italy
Feb. 7th/18
Dear Sir,
I wish to give you, & Mr A. S. Marsden-Smedley, my very best thanks for the splendid parcel that I received quite safely on Feb 4th.
It was indeed good of you to think of us in this way, & the parcel came as a greater pleasure to me, because it was unexpected, seeing that I had only left home a few weeks. The contents left nothing to be desired, & as we were first in the line, could not have come at a more opportune time.
Neither the fighting, nor the conditions, are as bad here, as in France, but for all that, shall be glad when we are back amongst our own people again, & like we shall be, by this time 1919.
The weather here is quite warm, & there is some very beautiful scenery.
Hoping that this letter finds you quite well, & again thanking you for your goodness in thinking of us,
I remain
Yours sincerely
Blake Lowe

 

 

CENSUS INFORMATION

1901: Rose Villas Holloway

Forename Surname Relationship Age Occupation Where born
William Lowe Head 53 Retail yeasr dealer Lea
Mary Lowe wife 48   Holloway
Maurice George Lowe son 26 Grocery assistant Tansley Cliff
Esther Lowe daughter 25 Sewing machinist hosiery factory Tansley Cliff
Robert Bertram Lowe son 21 Frame knitter hosiery factory Tansley Cliff
Thomas Blake Lowe son 17 Hosiery warehouseman Lea
Florence Mary Lowe daughter 12 School Holloway
Jack Reginald Lowe son 10 School Holloway

RG13 piece 3231 folio 113 page 3

1911: Rose Villas Holloway

Forename Surname Relationship Age Occupation Where born
William Lowe Head 53 Retail yeasr dealer Lea
Mary Lowe wife 48   Holloway
Maurice George Lowe son 26 Grocery assistant Tansley Cliff
Esther Lowe daughter 25 Sewing machinist hosiery factory Tansley Cliff
Robert Bertram Lowe son 21 Frame knitter hosiery factory Tansley Cliff
Thomas Blake Lowe son 17 Hosiery warehouseman Lea
Florence Mary Lowe daughter 12 School Holloway
Jack Reginald Lowe son 10 School Holloway

RG14PN21013 RG78PN1253 RD436 SD6 ED11 SN148