10539 Pte Timothy Lowe, 1st Bn, Cheshire Regt

10539 Private Timothy Lowe of the 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, died of wounds on the 5th April 1915. He was born in Cosley, Staffordshire and enlisted at Northwick in Cheshire. His number indicates that he enlisted as a career soldier with the Cheshire regiment around May or June 1914, and his medal index card records that he arrived overseas on the 26th October 1914. He was thus an Old Contemptible, qualifying for the 1914 Star and clasp. His service record has not survived.

Timothy Lowe is buried in Berlin's South-Western Cemetery, indicating that he almost certainly died in captivity in one of the many prison camps operating in Germany during the First World war. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission states:

"In 1922-23 it was decided that the graves of Commonwealth servicemen who had died all over Germany should be brought together into four permanent cemeteries. Berlin South-Western was one of those chosen and in 1924-25, graves were brought into the cemetery from 146 burial grounds in eastern Germany. There are now 1,176 First World War servicemen buried or commemorated in the Commonwealth plot at Berlin South-Western Cemetery. The total includes special memorials to a number of casualties buried in other cemeteries in Germany whose graves could not be found."

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission