Walter Lowy

Captain Walter Albert Lowy was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1892, in Hampstead, the son of stockbroker's agent Lionel and Ruth Lowy (née Piza), of London and Manchester, respectively. Lowy was educated at Wellington College and Balliol. He was in France on the outbreak of war in August 1914, but returned to enter the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps.The Times (41891), Col E, p. 2: "Fallen Officers". 10 September 1918.
In October 1915, Lowy arrived in Salonika, where he would serve with the 10th (Service) Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment. He was wounded during the retreat from the Vardar Valley in December, but recovered, rejoining his battalion in late January.
Lowy succumbed to wounds on 3 September 1918, a day after sustaining fatal wounds in the capture of the Bulgarian-held Roche Noire Salient. He had been commanding "B" Company, which had initially been held in reserve when the 10th Hampshires, in conjunction with the 2nd Gloucesters, began their assault on the 1st. When his company did advance, it came under shelling, suffering casualties and causing it to lose some of its cohesion. Nevertheless, "B" reached the advanced companies and rendered assistance in the battalion's consolidation of La Roche Noire. The Gloucesters casualties amounted to 204 killed, wounded, and missing.Cowland, Walter S. (1930), Some Account of the 10th and 12th Battalions, the Hampshire Regiment,1914-1918, p. 35-7.
He is buried in Karasouli Military Cemetery.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Lowy, Walter Albert, cwgc.org. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
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