WILLIAM NORMAN LOWE (1899-1907 :27), Captain, Highland Light Infantry, was the second son of Lieutenant Colonel T E Lowe of Wolverhampton, and at present at the Headquarters of the Royal Engineer Services at Alford, Lincolnshire.  Like his father and all his brothers, he distinguished himself in all kinds of outdoor sport.  Better still, he shone by that fine strength of character that was to develop into the best type of British manhood.  So many were the branches of athletics that he took up that it is impossible to name all.  Here he was Captain of Football, Captain of Running, a member of the Cricket XI, and the representative of the school in the Public School Boxing Tournament.  Later he shot at Bisley and elsewhere for Staffordshire, represented the Midland Counties in cross-country running, played football for Middlesex and Lyons, gained several lawn tennis championships, was captain of the Hong Kong Fire Brigade and a member of the North China Volunteers, and also made a mark in swimming and golf.  For two years he was at the bank of the Crédit Lyonnais at Lyons, and then he went to China in the permanent employment of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.  Resigning this last appointment in order to serve his country, he came home and obtained a commission in the South Staffordshire Regiment, went to France, and was wounded in November 1915.  Then he exchanged into the Highland Light Infantry and again went out in May 1916.  Subsequently he was attached to the East Surrey Regiment and he was killed in action on November 25th 1917.  “Gallant and capable, whatever the conditions might be, he was always cheerful and keen, and his devotion to duty, unselfishness and great personal charm endeared him to all his comrades in the brigade”.  Thus his Brigadier, while the Commanding Officer wrote:  “In his duties he had the advantage of real physical strength, and his success as an officer was still more due to his determination always to do his duty and fit himself by knowledge and influence to be a leader in the truest sense”.