Service no. 61806
Private, Royal Fusiliers, 13th Battalion
formerly 22378, East Surrey Regiment
Killed in action on 9 September 1917, aged 19
CWGC: "Son of George and Rose Margaret Lowton, of 21, Rectory Gardens, Clapham, London."
Born in Dulwich; lived in Clapham; enlisted in Wandsworth
Remembered at Zantvoorde British Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 George Henry Lowton, then a 13-year-old schoolboy, lived with his parents and siblings at Woodville Cottage, Archway Place, Clapham Common North Side. They inhabited 4 rooms. His father, George Henry Lowton, 36, was a stonemason from Bristol, his mother, Rose Lowton, 33, was from London. The children listed on the census return were:
George Henry Lowton
Stannley Lowton, 12
Rose Lowton, 10
Sidney Lowton, 9
Ernest Lowton, 6
Madeline Lowton, 5
Harold Lowton, 3
All were born in London.