C. Stewart R. Lowdon, Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps, was the son of the late Rev. C. Ross Lowdon, Middle U.F. Church, Greenock. Born on 5th March 1920, he attended Watson's from 1931 to 1937 and proved an excellent all-rounder, being secretary of the dramatic club and a member of the football, cricket and literary clubs. Graduating M.B., Ch.B. at Edinburgh University in 1942, he was for a time Resident in the Royal Infirmary, and was Senior President of the Royal Medical Society. Joining the R.A.M.C. in 1942, he was attached to the Royal Artillery and crossed to Normandy shortly after D Day. He was killed in action in Holland on 8th November
The younger son of Mr. J. R. Lowe, Melrose, was born in 1896, and, after attending Galashiels Academy, came to G.W.C. in 1909, and had a brilliant career as a scholar, culminating in the duxship of the Modern Side in 1913. Passing to the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, for electrical engineering, he began his course with equally high promise. Joining the M.G.C. in May 1915, he crossed to France two months later, and saw eighteen months' strenuous fighting with the Motor Machine Gun Section, 15th Bty., R.F.A. He died of wounds received in action on Dec. 22, 1916. In his memory, the W. J. Lowe Memorial Prize for Science has been gifted to the College by his father.
Was born at Belfast in 1884, and attended G.W.C. 1894-1902. Proceeding to Edin. Univ., he graduated M.A. and LL.B., winning the Hurst Scholarship (1905) and the Vans Dunlop (1908). He had won for himself a high place among the junior counsel at the Scottish Bar, when, at the outbreak of war, he enlisted in the 5th R.S. Gazetted to the 8th R.S. in Apr. 1915, he served in France, and during the attack on Nov. 13, 1916, was wounded, and succumbed to his injuries four days later.
The son of Mr. W. R. Luca, Edin., was born in 1900, and attended G.W.C. 1908-15. He studied wireless telegraphy, and was appointed assistant operator on board H.M.T. Floridan. On Feb. 23, 1917, a German submarine was sighted, and, opening fire at long range, brought the ship to a standstill. The operators stuck to their post and got in touch with neighbouring warships. The order to abandon ship was given. The boat to which he was told off taking the water badly, he was thrown into the sea and drowned.
Maurice B. Lucas, Second Lieutenant, Royal Tank Regiment, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. H. Lucas, 4 Minto Street, Edinburgh, was born on 16th July 1915. Coming to Watson's in 1922, he left in 1933 to enter the London Stock Exchange. Having joined the Westminster Dragoons in 1936 he was mobilised in 1939, and after training in an O.C.T.U. was gazetted Second Lieutenant in the R.T.R. Drafted to North Africa in 1941, he was killed in action in Egypt on 17th July 1942 and is buried at Mersa Matruh.
The son of Mrs. Lyburn, Edin., was born in 1894, and attended G.W.C. 1905-12. He was a prominent member of the Modern Side, and Captain of Cockburn House 1911-12. He went to Edin. Univ. to study agriculture, and had made considerable progress. Enlisting in the 5th Dragoon Guards in Sept. 1914, he got a commission in the R.F.A. in Aug. 1915, and was sent to Salonika, Jan. 1916. There he contracted dysentery and died in hospital, Oct. 13, 1916.
The son of Mr. J. Lyell, Edin., was born in 1894, and attended G.W.C. 1904-9, whence he passed to Loretto, where he distinguished himself as an athlete. He was from 1913-15 a student of Arts and law at Edin. Univ. Gazetted to the 3rd R.S. in Dec. 1915, he was posted to a service Bn. and later went to France as an Intelligence Officer. While examining some articles captured from the enemy, he was killed by the explosion of a concealed bomb, Dec. 1917.
E. Russell Lyon, Flying Officer, Royal Air Force, son of Mr. Ernest H. Lyon and the late Mrs. Lyon, Cargen, Bonaly Road, Colinton, Edinburgh, was born on 19th December 1922. He was a pupil at Watson's from 1932 to 1941 and during his last session at school was a Prefect and gained his 1st XV Colours. Joining the R.A.F. in 1941, he trained in this country and in the U.S.A., where he gained his wings and commission. Later he acted as flying instructor at various airfields in the United States and in Canada. Returning to this country in April 1943, he asked to be posted to an operational squadron. He was reported missing from operations near Lorient, Brittany, on 27th July 1944, and later was presumed to have been killed in action on that date.
The son of the Rev. G. Macalister, D.D., Rajputana, India, was born in 1891, and attended G.W.C. 1903-10. He was one of the most brilliant students in his year, leaving with a College bursary and taking a high place in the Edin. Univ. Bursary list. He had graduated in Arts with Hons. in Philosophy, and had been accepted for a post in the Indian Educational Service, when he enlisted in Sept. 1914 in the 15th R.S. In July 1915 he was gazetted to the 5th R.S.F., and, qualifying in machine gunnery at Strensall, was attached to the 78th Coy., M.G.C. He was sent with his unit to Salonika in July 1916, and in the fighting of Aug. 24-25, 1916, was reported missing and officially presumed dead on that day.
The youngest son of the late A. Macbeth, solicitor, was born in Dunfermline in 1876. After attending G.W.C. 1883-92, he became a stockbroker, and was admitted a member of London Stock Exchange. He was a keen cricketer and at one time the Captain of Spened Cricket Club, London, S.W. Gazetted 2/Lt. in the Worcester Regt., he served in Egypt. He died as a result of an accident which befell him while on military service.
