Kenneth
Firstname
Aggiss
Middle Name
Lowe
Surname
Date of Birth
School Years:
Date of Death:
1928 - 33
Family
Father N. H. Lowe
Wife Betty. 2 Children David and Sally.
School Record
Holden House. Played hockey and cricket for House and received School 2nd X1 colours for cricket. He was also in the house Gym 4. He won the Miniture Range Shooting Cup in 1933. He played the part of "Courcelles" in the School Play of "St. Joan" also in 1933
Branch of Service:
Army Royal Artillery 67 Medium Regt.
Service Number:
92868
Rank:
Decorations:
Service Record
Captain
Campaign Medals
Post War Career
a Career Officer who took part in the defence of Tobruk in 1942 against Field Marshall Rommel. He was initially posted as missing on 08/09/1942 and was on a casualty list No. 923, having previously been shown on casualty list No. 875 as missing on 22/06/1942. He was then posted as a Prisoner of War at Camp No 75 Torre Tresca (Bari). He was eventually transferred to Germany as POW No.1600 at Oflag 79 Braunschweig with another O.I., Capt J. B. Edge. He and Capt Edge were in the same regiment and captured at Cyrenaica. In an attempt to escape, they were holed up together with 3 other POWs for 19 days in the roof space of one of the huts at Sulmona Camp in Italy but were unfortunately recaptured shortly after leaving the roof. He was released in 1945 by the allies.
He became a Colonel and retired from the Army in 1971
Burial Information
Additional Information
Duing his imprisonment at Sulmona with Captain Edge, they had hidden with others in a roof of one of the huts with the intention of escaping. During the 19 days they spent there, captain Edge kept a diary written on a Calender presented to P.O.W.s by the then Pope. When they escaped from the roof, the diary had to be left behind in the rafters. Kenneth Lowe was very determined, after the war, to try to retreve it. He wrote to the Italian government and it was found and sent back to the U.K. in 1962. An explanation from Captain Edge together with a full copy of the Diary can be found in O.I.M No.36 of 1988 at pages 88-104.
Obituary O.I.M. Issue 1 Winter 2009/10 at page 42.
Other Pictures
Sulmona Camp.
Queuing for food at Sulmona.
P.O.W.s marching in to Sulmona.