Pre enlistment studio portrait of QX23831 Private (Pte) Horace Henry (Bub) Lowe, 2/12 Field ...

Accession Number P08911.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Unknown
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Pre enlistment studio portrait of QX23831 Private (Pte) Horace Henry (Bub) Lowe, 2/12 Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps , of Toowoomba, Qld. He enlisted from Brisbane on 22 September 1914. Pte Lowe was one of the 268 people who lost their lives when the hospital ship Centaur sank after it was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine off the Queensland coast on 14 May 1943. His name is commemorated on the Sydney Memorial.