Robert William Lowry | |
Birth Date: | 20 March 1824 |
Birth Place: | Drumreagh, County Tyrone |
Rank: | Lieutenant-General |
Battles: | Crimean War Fenian raids |
Awards: | Companion of the Order of the Bath |
Lieutenant-General Robert William Lowry (20 March 1824 – 8 June 1905) was a British Army officer who became colonel of the Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's).
Educated in Dungannon and Belfast, Lowry was commissioned into the 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot[1] and served with his regiment in the Crimean War in Winter 1854 and then in Malta in January 1857.[2] He commanded field forces in the Fenian raids in 1866.[1] He became colonel of the Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) in 1894 and died in 1905.[3]